In Search for Motivations: Exploring a Chinese Linux User Group

Matteo Tarantino

doi:10.4324/9780203828519-12

In Search for Motivations: Exploring a Chinese Linux User Group

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Drawing from an ethnographic study on open source programmers and evangelists performed in 2007 in Beijing, the paper highlights the problematic encounter between the Chinese context and the Free and Open Source Software model. Interviews show that the Chinese software industry, work culture and communication patterns each feature problems for FOSS.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	On-line Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival
Editors	David Kurt Herold, Peter Marolt
Pages	200-228
Number of pages	29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203828519-12
Publication status	Published - 2011

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China
Internet
Open Source

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