Purpose: A growing number of commercial open source software, based on free open source software, appears in many segments of software market. The purpose of this study is to investigate how commercial open source software affects proprietary software producer's pricing (market share or profit),...

Purpose: A growing number of open source software emerges in many segments of the software market. In addition, software products usually exhibit network externalities. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of open source software on the quality strategies of proprietary software...