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Wikipedia: the value of open content production
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Without the 'spillover effects' of open content production, the growth in Wikipedia editing activity between 2002 and 2010 would have been halved. That is the central finding of research by Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler, which analyses editing data by Wikipedia users to show how content...
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Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
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Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi Ville; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126178
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Growth Effects of Non-Proprietary Innovation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662038
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Capability Coordination in Modular Organization: Voluntary FS/OSS Production and the Case of Debian GNU/Linux
Garzarelli, Giampaolo; Galoppini, Roberto - EconWPA - 2003
The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting … considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding … the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But voluntary FS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412868
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Six Challenges in Platform Licensing and Open Innovation
PARKER, Geoffrey; ALSTYNE, Marshall VAN - In: Communications & Strategies 1 (2009) 74, pp. 17-36
businesses. It also proposes solutions. It considers, for example, how to open a platform to decentralized innovation yet still …
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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
collectively provided open source and open content knowledge assemblages. Whilst the impact of hijacking on open source software …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118747
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The Economic Dynamics Of Software: Three Competing Business Models Exemplified Through Microsoft, Netscape And Linux
Mckelvey, Maureen - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 10 (2001) 2-3, pp. 199-236
, respectively. Microsoft, Netscape and Linux. The concluding section relates software development to the broader forms of economic …This article proposes three ideal business models to analyze innovation in knowledge-intensive goods and services. The … innovation, e.g. creation of novelty and of economic value. Defining the models this way leads to a discussion of the advantages …
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The Determinants of Output Per Contributor in Open Source Projects: An Empirical Examination
Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Using a unique dataset we examine empirically which factors explain output per contributor in open source projects. We find that the output per contributor of open source programmes is much higher when licenses are less restrictive. Further examination suggests that the difference in output per...
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 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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