Free software

:This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. For other uses, see free software (disambiguation).

Individual motivations

Individuals within a team typically have a wide variety of motivations.

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Stances on the relationship between free software and the existing capitalist economic system:

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• Competition - free software and capitalism are incompatible, so more free software results in less capitalism.
• Inter-market competition - free software is a form of competition within capitalism. Copyright is governmental market restriction.
• Gift economy - status depends on gifts.