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Aguilera, David Uclés - EconWPA - 2004

El open source se ha convertido en una de las ideas más exitosas desde el surgimiento de Internet. En este artículo se analizan las razones de este éxito. The open source has become one of the most successful ideas from the sprouting of Internet. In this article the reasons of this success...

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open-source software

Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004

This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released with an open source license, it has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world's scientific literature in physics and...

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Open Source Software Development Patterns and License Terms

Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the choice of license terms along the development of a piece of software. Three licenses are compared, the proprietary one, the Berkeley Software Distribution, and the General Public License. The choice of one or the other license depends on the characteristics of the...

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The Economics of Open Source Hijacking and Declining Quality of Digital Information Resources: A Case for Copyleft

Ciffolilli, Andrea - EconWPA - 2004

The economics of information goods suggest the need for institutional intervention to address the problem of revenue extraction from investments in resources characterized by high fixed costs of production and low marginal costs of reproduction and distribution. Solutions to the appropriation...

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open source software

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2004

The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source license and has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world’s scientific literature in physics and mathematics. This...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561394

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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THE HIDDEN COSTS AND RETURNS OF INCENTIVES — TRUST AND TRUSTWORTHINESS AMONG CEOs

Fehr, Ernst; List, John A. - EconWPA - 2004

situations requiring trust and trustworthiness. As a control we compare the behavior of CEOs with the behavior of students. We …. However, the availability of penalizing incentives also creates hidden returns: if a principal expresses trust by voluntarily … threat is not available. Thus trust seems to reinforce trustworthy behavior. Overall, trustworthiness is highest if the …

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Sustaining Cooperation in trust Games

McCabe, Kevin; Rigdon, Mary; Smith, Vernon - EconWPA - 2004

-person trust game. Players are typed based on their recent track record as whether or not they are trusting (Players 1) and whether …

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TRUST OF MODERNITY, MODERNITY OF TRUST. CONSIDERATIONS AND RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS

CONTE, MASSIMO - EconWPA - 2005

THE DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP IN OUR TIMES IMPOSE A GROWING IMPORTANCE TO 'TRUST' AS A RESOURCE BETWEEN PERSONAL … REDUCING OF SOCIAL COMPLEXITY IN OUR NEAPOLITAN REALITY, WE ASSUME THAT IS BETTER TO 'RELIANCE' RATHER THAN TO TRUST. FOR THE …

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A Prototype for an Agent-based Secure Electronic Marketplace including Reputation Tracking Mechanisms

Boris, Padovan; Stefan, Sackmann; Thorsten, Eymann; … - EconWPA - 2002

The future of electronic commerce will be shaped by open, heterogeneous and complex structures, consisting of networked marketplaces. Software agents will interact and negotiate on behalf of their human (or organizational) principals. Principals will be able to implement fraudulent strategies in...

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