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GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSING AND THE INTENSITY OF AGGREGATE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Chen, Maggie X.; Iyigun, Murat; Maskus, Keith E. - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 16 (2007) 6, pp. 451-466

We develop a theoretical model in which the sophistication of technologies improves over time due to research and development (R&D) undertaken by software developers in two sectors. In the commercial sector, R&D intensity is driven by economic incentives, whereas in the sector using the General...

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Software: Competition and Compatibility

Meng, Zhaoli - EconWPA - 2005

We use a Hotelling linear city model to study competition between open source and proprietary software, where only the … producer of the proprietary software aims at maximizing the profit. The producer of the proprietary software must decide on … for the producer of the proprietary software. We found that the proprietary producer¡¯s choice of compatibility strategy …

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Open Source vs. Proprietary Software: Competition and Compatibility

Meng, Zhaoli; Lee, Sang-Yong Tom - EconWPA - 2005

e use a Hotelling linear city model to study competition between open source and proprietary software, where only the … producer of the proprietary software aims at maximizing the profit. The producer of the proprietary software must decide on … for the producer of the proprietary software. We found that the proprietary producer¡¯s choice of compatibility strategy …

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Competition between open-source and proprietary software: the (La)TeX case study

Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004

The paper examines competition between two development models, proprietary and open-source (``OS''). It first defines and compares those two models and then analyzes the influence the development of one type of software has on the development of the other. The paper is based on the (La)TeX case...

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