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Free Resources and Independent Technology
in the Information Sectors
Bernard Lang (INRIA)
Hanoi, 25-26 October 1997
Summary: The growing role of non-material resources and
networks in the quasi-elimination of the marginal costs of production
and distribution, has qualitatively modified the rules of the
economic game. The specific results of this are the phenomena of
industrial concentration and a handing over of the question of the
technological independence of downstream industries, teaching and
research. Nevertheless, these same questions produce the opposite
effect which can be seen by the emergence of so-called ``free''
objects of a cultural, scientific or technological nature. These
resources originate from the coordination of voluntary contributions
from thousands of universities and professionals. This was made possible by
international cooperation and the distribution of information by the
numerical media (networks and CD-ROMs). Several studies demonstrate
that these resources are often equally as good as or better in quality
than those on sale commercially, offering all the same guarantees
for use (maintenance, portability and performance). They already
seem to have a greater share of the more important segments of certain
information technology markets (software for networks, exploitation
systems, software tools) in teaching and research, but they are also
to be found in the competitive activities of the most advanced
economies. Our aim is to examine the impact of the development and
the exploitation of these resources on emergent and advanced
economies, particularly, in what refers to technological
independence, employment, foreign trade, access to the resources
competed for by industry, teaching, research, and the cultural
identity of the countries involved and their participation in the
technological progress of the world.
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