The Culture of Open Sources

The Culture of Open Sources is a study of the creative methodologies of Free and Open Source Software developers who either write code for creative applications or support artistic and social goals as sysadmins. This research is based on qualitative research with about 20 developers so far with whom long biographic and interviews have been conducted. For those interviews as set of 10 questions was used which had subquestions and were about youth and early formative years, learning, motivation, contact with Linux, ideas about political software development and the possibility to have an impact on 'creative developments' of societies through writing software.