[eng] The economics of open source software: cooperation and incentives to innovate. . An open source software is defined by the availability of its source-code that cannot be privately appropriated. Its production is based on a special cooperative organisation mode, called the "bazaar", which...

An open source software is defined by the availability of its source-code that cannot be privately appropriated. Its production is based on a special cooperative organisation mode, called the ?bazaar??, which functions particularly well in the context of Internet. Its functional viability till...