This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released … program's code, the software that is part of the TeX distribution, the newsgroups dedicated to the software, and many other …

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 software's user base, the market conditions on the developers' job …

The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source … uncovered in previous studies of other open source software projects, such as GNU/Linux, an operating system, and Apache, a web … that are at work and influence the project. The case study explores the economic impact of the TeX software which is sold …

and compares those two models and then analyzes the influence the development of one type of software has on the … the development of the (La)TeX software were compared to its proprietary equivalents. The models that are presented in … this paper describe some aspects of the strategic interactions between proprietary and open-source software. The paper …

collectively provided open source and open content knowledge assemblages. Whilst the impact of hijacking on open source software …

Information Maximum Likelihood Method. The results show that the software-user license, age of the project, project status … project popularity. An interesting finding is that GPL, the most widely used software license has an adverse impact on the …

Open source software development has organizational characteristics that are out of the ordinary (e.g., flatter … absorptive capacity, and (b) software itself is a capital structure embodying knowledge. Indeed, in this regard the study goes so … far as to suggest that the distinction between input (knowledge) and output (software) is somewhat amorphous because …

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 …

Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its … consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it … a private good, licensing it under the BSD does not change the economic nature of the software while licensing it under …