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Resisting Incorporation and Reclaiming the Commons: The Case of Oracle and Sun Microsystems
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2020
Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software
The previous two chapters focused on case studies of Microsoft and Red Hat, and discussed the ways in which the processes and products of FLOSS production became incorporated into capitalist production. 33 The chapter on Microsoft demonstrated how the company initially built its business model on strong protection of its intellectual property and fended off challenges from the emergent open-source models that proved to be an effective and efficient model of software production. Microsoft
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