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The article presents an economic analysis of Libre software and of its sustainability as a new economic model for software.
We underline the role of Libre software development communities and analyze incentives for both kernel and obscure developers.
We show that several features of Libre software also allow it to improve faster than proprietary software, and therefore to achieve strong market performance when competing against existing standards, even when proprietary software producers react.
We finally argue that if sufficient initial momentum could be created through public intervention Libre software could turn from a fad into an efficient economic institution to correct inefficiencies due to network externalities.
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