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In more recent years, FOSS is becoming an increasingly important element in strategies for development and implementation of information and communication technologies also in developing countries. Mainstream research on FOSS has catered to the underlying principles or freedom, open organizational forms, and on its economical aspects. The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the actual consequences of FOSS, often left in the background.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The paper examines where FOSS principles' assumptions are likely to be more evident: in contexts of developing countries, which are geographically and organizationally far from the original environment of FOSS. A mixed methodology characterizes this work: quantitative and qualitative methods bring readers' attention to unusual empirical settings and downplayed organizational processes of information technology (IT) implementation and adoption.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The consequences of FOSS on IT implementation and actual use are ambivalent. It is argued that FOSS adoption does not happen spontaneously, neither by decree, and that the relevance of open technologies as public goods remains in the different role of local actual technical and organizational capabilities, and environment conditions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>Such a focus complements existing studies on the economical relevance of FOSS, which are not the focus of this paper.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/14779961011024800","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,2,20]],"date-time":"2010-02-20T07:06:53Z","timestamp":1266649613000},"page":"42-56","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Free and Open Source Software in developing contexts"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Gianluca","family":"Miscione","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Kevin","family":"Johnston","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022020820474168100_b1","unstructured":"Aiyer, R. 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