Darmon, Éric; texier, Thomas Le; Torre, Dominique - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 136 (2011) 4, pp. 109-140
We study the conditions ruling the diffusion of open source as opposed to proprietary software distributed by a … proprietary software or not to adopt. We find that adoption patterns depend on the conditions related to the users? expectations … a credible open source threat improves the utility of end-users even if the proprietary solution is eventually adopted …