For decades, Libre software has had a deep and fruitful relationship with research, as tool, outcome, or object of study. Painting an exhaustive landscape in a few tens of minutes will be a task for historians, especially so since the needs and practices greatly vary from one field to the other. In this talk, we will simply highlight some fundamental trends -- typology of software, development and funding models -- from a personal perspective, with the aim to trigger experience sharing among participants.

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