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Eilhard, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

source projects. Increasing ﬁrms’ participation in the development of open source software (OSS) is generally perceived as a …

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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 … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …

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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 … source software (CSS) competition will be presented. Hardware and software are complement goods and OSS is financed by … hardware firms. There is a differentiated oligopoly of hardware–software bundles, in which firms compete in prices. Results are …

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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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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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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software

Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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 that the OS model of production may be more efficient from the point …

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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...

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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...

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Big data, privacy, and trusted web: What needs to be done

Helbing, Dirk; Balietti, Stefano - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This perspective paper discusses challenges and risks of the information age, and the implications for the information and communication technologies that need to be built and operated. It addresses ethical and policy issues related with Big Data and how procedures for privacy-preserving data...

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Golden Rule of Forecasting: Be conservative

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C.; Graefe, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper proposes a unifying theory of forecasting in the form of a Golden Rule of Forecasting. The Golden Rule is to be conservative. A conservative forecast is consistent with cumulative knowledge about the present and the past. To be conservative, forecasters must seek all knowledge...

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