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Forms of Remuneration for Free Software Production: A Reducible Complexity

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

Volume 64 (2019): Issue 1 (June 2019)

By: Emrah Irzik

Open Access

|Aug 2019

Abstract

How producers of free digital goods can be compensated for their labour is a major topic of debate and controversy in Free Software and related fields. This paper analytically disentangles the multiple modes of remuneration in operation in Free Software and presents the implications from a political economy perspective. The outlook of autonomous commons-based production in information goods is situated in relation to capitalism. In the process, certain conceptual contributions are made regarding the nature of information goods and the commodity form.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2019-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2066-0464 | Journal ISSN: 1224-8703

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Language: English

Page range: 109 - 126

Published on: Aug 9, 2019

Published by: Babeș-Bolyai University

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

Information society,

digital production,

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Social structures, social interaction, population, social anthropology,

Social policy, social work, development aid,

Sociology of economy, organizations, and industry,

Social anthropology

© 2019 Emrah Irzik, published by Babeș-Bolyai University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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