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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...
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Management information systems in an open source software context
Teiu, Codrin-Marius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
defining this concept and making an analysis on how the need of a company for an MIS can pe satisfied using OSS(open source … software). The analysis is build on a series of pros and cons, with examples on OpenErp where possible. OpenErp is an OSS for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211232
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Deadly Contests An economic note on al Qaeda’s reward system
Caruso, Raul; Locatelli, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The aim of this brief paper is to interpret al Qaeda’s modus operandi in the light of the economic theory of contests. The main idea expressed here is that al Qaeda can be considered as a contest-designer rewarding an indivisible prize. Affiliated groups compete with each other to win the...
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Firms on SourceForge
Eilhard, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
source projects. Increasing firms’ participation in the development of open source software (OSS) is generally perceived as a … puzzle. Assuming that firms face a ”Make-or-Buy” decision before using OSS, we argue that contribution is in fact the best way …
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A Model of corporate donations to open source under hardware–software complementarity
Di Gaetano, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
scholars on the topic. Open source software (OSS) is developed by communities of programmers and users, usually sponsored by … private firms; OSS is available in the public domain and redistributed for free. In this paper a model of open and closed … source software (CSS) competition will be presented. Hardware and software are complement goods and OSS is financed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259457
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Modelos open source y responsabilidad social
García-García, Jesús; Magdaleno, Alonso de; Isabel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Because open source assets are developed collectively, there is no single source for cost estimates of how much it has taken to develop the technology. There is a great value on open source delopments (OSD), but current legal framework for financial reporting doesn’t allow to report on them...
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The creation of internet communities: A brief history of on-line distribution of working papers through NEP, 1998-2010
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Krichel, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper adds to the growing literature on the formation of online communities from an historical perspective by telling of the emergence and development of a service for speedy, online distribution of recent additions to the broad literatures on economics and related areas called NEP: New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756315
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users and respond to their needs. If the open source developer wants to promote her own open source standard and solutions, she may choose liberal license terms such as those of the...
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Show me the code: Spatial analysis and open source
Rey, S.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper considers the intersection of academic spatial analysis with the open source revolution. Its basic premise is that the potential for cross-fertilization between the two is rich, yet some misperceptions about these two communities pose challenges to realizing these opportunities. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617027
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Efficiency through openness: the economic value proposition of open source software
Ghafele, Roya; Gibert, Benjamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study identifies the mechanisms inherent to Open Source Software (OSS) production that help fuel innovation in … occupations. We estimate that the number of OSS-related software development jobs in the US is estimated to be between 801,590 and … employment projections by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. The economic value proposition of OSS will reverberate well beyond …
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