Questo documento rappresenta il tentativo di illustrare una panoramica sulla sempre attuale questione relativa alla competitività internazionale dell’economia italiana.

What I'll present in this paper is a series of case studies on Open Source software development, facing some uncommon structural features that make this special kind of distributed, technology-enabled software development teams an interesting object of research, due to its nearly impossible nature, from economical, social and technical standpoints.