In order to simply communicate members of the Free/Open/Source Software community (FLOSS) have to "negotiate" the system of meanings they use to interface with the world and with the communitarian environment. But this means reshaping also their own visions of the world, redefining their...

The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers' motivations and tries to isolate mechanisms sustaining developers' contribution over time. The first part of the paper uses data gathered by the empirical studies relative to the...

The empirical studies relative to the Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) case stress the important role played by psychological and social motivations. However, the theories elaborated to cope with this dimension, such as gift economyʺ, epistemic communityʺ or community of practiceʺ, are...