BIO
Nordine Benkeltoum, PhD in management sciences, is a lecturer at Laboratoire de Modélisation et de Management des Organisations (LM2O), École Centrale de Lille, and a associate researcher at Centre de Gestion Scientifique (CGS), Mines ParisTech.
In 2010 his research on open source regimes was awarded Prix de Thèse de l’ANDESE (French Association of PhD in Economics and Management Sciences).
He has recently published "Gérer et Comprendre l’Open Source. Une Modélisation en Termes de Régimes" (Presses de l’Ecole des Mines, juin 2011).
The free software movement when viewed from afar remains poorly understood but on closer inspection reveals a web of surprises. Who knows that around half of all "volunteers" are actually being paid for their contributions? The frontier between commercial and non-commercial activity has become somewhat blurred and the idealized vision of a utopian community actually hides an extremely wide range of actors and entities.
Le monde du logiciel libre reste mal connu et, lorsqu'on l'observe attentivement, il est plein de surprises. Sait-on par exemple que la moitié des contributeurs de l'open source sont rémunérés? La frontière entre marchand et gratuit est poreuse, et l'imaginaire des communautés cache des acteurs très divers.