International FLOSS(free/libre open source software) firms surveys

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Congreso; GLOBELICS; 2017

GLOBELICS

During the last decade, there was a substantial growth in the software and IT services sector, which generates an interest in the study of the impact that the expansion of this sector had in the development of emerging economies. At the same time, it is particularly relevant to the study the FLOSS production activity given its contribution to the Knowledge Intensive Services Sector, as software. The aim of this study is to contribute to the analysis of this activity, presenting a systematization, evaluation and analysis of the design of technological surveys available in the software activity and in FLOSS worldwide, so that it serves as antecedent for a subsequent recommendation in the design of a measuring instrument suited to the needs of the emerging economies. For that, this paper contains a review and systematization of software surveys at international level, surveys on FLOSS activity that take FLOSS developers as a unit of analysis and lastly on the FLOSS surveys at firm level, as a way to propose a questionnaire that allows to measure the particularities of FLOSS.