Editing Free software movement (section)

==Economics==
The free software movement has been extensively analyzed using economic methodologies, including perspectives from [[heterodox economics]]. Of particular interest to economists{{Who|date=June 2021}} is the willingness of programmers in the free software movement to work, {{citation needed span|date=June 2021|often producing higher-quality than proprietary programmers, without financial compensation}}.<!-- Free software can be commercial -->

In his 1998 article "The High-Tech Gift Economy", [[Richard Barbrook]] suggested that the then-nascent free software movement represented a return to the [[gift economy]] building on [[hobby]]ism and the [[Post-scarcity economy|absence of economic scarcity]] on the Internet.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Barbrook |first1=Richard |date=1998 |title=The High-Tech Gift Economy |url=http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/631/552 |journal=First Monday |volume=13 |issue=12 |access-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722184805/http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/631/552 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Gabriella Coleman]] has emphasized the importance of accreditation, respect, and [[honour]] within the free software community as a form of compensation for contributions to projects, over and against financial motivations.<ref>Coleman (2013), p. 116-7.</ref>

The Swedish [[Marxian economics|Marxian]] economist Johan Söderberg has argued that the free software movement represents a complete alternative to [[capitalism]] that may be expanded to create a post-work society. He argues that the combination of a manipulation of intellectual property law<!-- The term "intellectual property" groups together multiple unrelated laws. Which one is being referred to here? --> and [[private property]] to make goods available to the public and a thorough blend between labor and fun make the free software movement a [[communism|communist economy]].<ref>Söderberg (2007), p. 153-4.</ref>