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Modèles économiques liés aux logiciels libres Les différents modèles économiques, ou modèles d'affaires, utilisés par les logiciels libres À l'intention des décideurs, des conseillers techniques et financiers, des chefs d'entreprise, des chefs de projets et des élus.

Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be committers, vendors feel pressure to produce open source products, and system integrators anticipate boosting profits.

He explains the economic reality and moral justification for free software, and its role in the struggle for human freedom historically and in society at large.

This page serves as the table of contents for my series of articles entitled "Marketing for Geeks". The central theme here is that if we demystify marketing, it can be competently done by technical people. The series is still being written, with new articles coming soon to an RSS feed near you.

Professeur de droit et d'histoire légale à l'école de droit de Columbia. Article préparé pour la publication à la conférence internationale Buchmann sur le droit, la technologie et l'information, à l'université de Tel Aviv en mai 1999. Mes remerciements aux organisateurs pour leur gracieuse invitation. Je dois plus que jamais à Pamela Karlan pour sa perspicacité et ses encouragements. Merci à Jérôme Saltzer, Richard Stallman et bien d'autres qui ont largement contribué aux corrections et aux améliorations de cet article. J'aimerais spécialement remercier les programmeurs à travers le monde qui ont rendu le logiciel libre possible. Traduction française par Jérôme Dominguez (taz@gnu.org).

The simple question “what’s wrong with software patents?” stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents. Those who don’t like them claim that they are anti-competitive, that they are tools used by industry giants to crush free and open software, that they are bad for innovation, that they are monopolies, etc. Those who like them claim that they are simply units of intellectual property, to be traded like any other commodity.