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Some numbers can be analyzed around FLOSS. A good entry point is netcraft. This company analyzes Market based on Web Servers queries. They provide interesting reports, very trustable, as they are crawling machines to get the information, so the way the information is extracted is very different to more traditional reports based on surveys or other mechanisms.\\
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Related to Web Servers Market report analysis, it can be asserted that, in some cases, the market is leaded by a FLOSS Project (Apache in this case). Apache could get enough resources to keep being the leaders across the time. Moreover this, there are companies and individuals that make big effort on Apache. Companies as IBM, for example, did not try to create a web server, but instead they bet for Apache, as they do not want its competitors to gain the market. Apache has reached to be a standard de facto, so to sell a Web Server different from Apache, you can not sell anything the same or with less performance than Apache, especially when it is free.\\
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\begin{figure}[htb]
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\begin{center}
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\includegraphics{webServer1303}
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\caption{Web Server share market}
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\label{fig:webServer1303}
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\end{center}
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\end{figure}
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Around Browsers Market, however, other curious paradigm is happening: Webkit is base for Safari and Android Browser, and both are the leaders for Mobile Browsers. Curious as Google and Apple fight each other in many other businesses.\\
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\begin{figure}[htb]
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\begin{center}
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\includegraphics{mobile_tablet_browser}
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\caption{Mobile-Tablet browser}
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\label{fig:mobile_tablet_browser}
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\end{center}
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\end{figure}
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Analyzing Market Reports some basic concepts can be foregrounded:
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- \textbf{Unstable Market}: leader having less than 60\% of the Market (Web Browsers Market, for example is an unstable Market).\\
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Another report related to Big computers market was shown. The main question around Super Computer Market, nowadays, is not who uses Linux, but wich distribution of Linux use each Super Computer. Linux Kernel is the undisputed leader in the market and, however, it is also a key player in many other different markets, as tMobile Devices. That is really something new in informatics, and has to do with openness, adaptability, etc. It is curious that, in Desktop, Linux never ends up entering the Market, when it is an example of a nice Operating System running on very different systems.\\
To summarize, it has to be stated that FLOSS is a particular case, in technology and, of course, in economics.\\\\
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It also has to be considered that, Internet is changing the model. First in time, things were done by small groups in small towns. Later, things were done by Big Enterprises or States. Nowadays, we are goint back to the "small town times", but this time small towns are interconected, as Internet is used to synchronise people. It also has to be clarified that, sometimes, towns are not so small, as in the Wikipedia case.\\
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& Market Based & Non-Market Based \\
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Decentralized & Price Based & \textbf{Social Sharing/Exchange} \\
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Decentralized & Price Based & \textbf{Social Sharing/Exchange} *\\
(*1)In past time this paradigm was used for small projects (look after of a garden in a neighbourhood)\\
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(*)In past time this paradigm was used for small projects (look after of a garden in a neighbourhood)\\
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It is normally valid for "non-material" things, changing the sense of property. That happens on software, music, etc.\\
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Non-market decentralized models need new means of coordination.\\
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Means competition: (FLOSS vs Microsoft, Skype vs Telecomms, Wikipedia vs Encyclopedias, etc.)
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The results of the competition means also the kind of the society we will live.
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\section{Conclusions}\label{conclusions}
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The evidence from the study of the market numbers suggests that the number of FLOSS projects has grown exponentially at least years, so FLOSS market is not an insignificant market. There are niches where the lead product are free software and it is really stable market, and is difficult to change for privative software.
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Nowadays, free software is sometimes the best option in certain business and sometimes not, but the important thing to note is that almost all companies are considering free software strategies on their global business plans.
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It is important to consider that internet is changing the model. Many actors now have the tool to be interconected and is used to synchronise people in a very efficient way. A new paradigm in internet springs up strongly upwards. Around this new concepts appear like crowdsourcing, which is an online, distributed requirement solving and production mode, and not only for software production.
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