Abstract
Free software has matured well into the commercial software market, yet little qualitative research
exists which accurately describes the state of commercial free software today. For this thesis, an
instrumental case study was performed on a prominent free software company in Norway. The
study found that the commercial free software market is largely driven by social networks, which
have a social capital in its own that attracts more people, which in turn become members of the
social network and belivers of free software.