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

Software can be distributed closed source (proprietary) or open source (developed collaboratively). While a firm cannot … sell open source software, and so loses potential sales revenue, the open source software development process can have a … substantial positive impact on the quality of a software, its diffusion, and, consequently, the demand for a complementary product …

This article analyses the phenomenon of using the Open Source software. Its aim is to verify the existence of a … positive direct network effect that characterizes using of the Open Source software. The multivariate probit model is used to … extract factors motivating users to the usage of the Open Source software. Special attention is paid to demographic …

well as suggestions for how the library can be used with other software projects. Empirical illustrations of several key …

software products. We use design structure matrices (DSMs) to map dependencies between the elements of a design and define … software products--the Linux operating system and the Mozilla Web browser--that were developed via contrasting modes of … given recent moves to release proprietary software into the public domain. These moves are likely to fail unless the product …

Based on collaboration rather than competition, Open Source Software provides a new dynamic in the development and use … of software systems. As such it has the potential to make a significant legal, social and economic impact on the industry …. While its origins trace back to the start of the software industry, the recent success of the Linux operation system, Apache …

Das Papier charakterisiert die spezifischen Eigenschaften des Gutes Software. Als Alternative zur Bereitstellung von … Software über Märkte werden die Charakteristika der "freien" Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung dargestellt, bei der die … Konsumentenpräferenzen aufweist. Das Papier ist gleichzeitig ein kritischer Kommentar zur Open-Source-Software-Studie von Kalwey u.a. (2003). …

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 …

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 …