Thursday, August 29, 2002

"non-monetary/trans-monetary" economic activity


Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study
Technological and socio-economic changes known as the "New Information Society/Economy" are re-introducing the notion of production, consumption and trade of goods and services without the direct or obvious involvement of money. Such "non-monetary/trans-monetary" economic activity is difficult to measure through usual monetary indicators. This project aims to remedy this situation by identifying and developing indicators of such activity through a case study of OS/FS: Open Source/Free Software.


I'm just starting to read this myself...

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