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Dragging developers towards the core: How the free/libre/open source software community enhances developers' contribution
Rullani, Francesco - 2006
The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers' motivations and tries to isolate mechanisms sustaining developers' contribution over time. The first part of the paper uses data gathered by the empirical studies relative to the...
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Open Source as a Signalling Device - An Economic Analysis
Lee, Samuel; Moisa, Nina; Weiß, Marco - 2003
Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private returns by those who contribute to their production. In this paper we analyze why programmers will nevertheless invest their time and effort to code open source software. We argue that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316312
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Softwareentwicklung im Netzwerk: Kooperation, Hierarchie und Wettbewerb in einem Open Source-Projekt
Brand, Andreas - 2009
Bedeutung erlangt. In dieser Arbeit wird die Zusammenarbeit der Open Source-Mitarbeiter bei der Softwareentwicklung anhand einer … Einfluss der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik (IuK) auf die hoch virtuelle Zusammenarbeit der Softwareentwicklung … Softwareentwicklung eine manchmal auch bedeutende Rolle spielen. Ausgehend von diesem Befund werden erste Anstrengungen durchgeführt, eine …
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Editorial: REGION - the online open-access journal of ERSA
Koschinsky, Julia; Koster, Sierdjan; Patuelli, Roberto; … - In: REGION 1 (2014) 1, pp. 1-3
This editorial launches REGION, the new online and open-access journal of ERSA. REGION aims to be a high-quality academic journal in the field of regional science. To its contributors, it offers a solid peer-review process and immediate publication upon acceptance. Also, it will be a flexible...
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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions: the role of institutions and culture
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009
So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public, collaborative manner. High quality OSS products like...
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Institutions, culture, and open source
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2010
The paper analyzes the impact of institutional and cultural factors on a remarkable economic activity: the production of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273832
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On the geographic allocation of open source software activities
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas; Schulz, … - 2010
'community' consisting of thousands of contributors from all over the world. Some research was undertaken in order to analyze how … picture of the world-wide allocation of open source activities. Such country data about the supply-side of OSS is a valuable …
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Intellectual property rights and ex-post transaction costs: the case of open and closed source software
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008
The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...
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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights
von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008
There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software industry. In this paper we focus on the choice of intellectual property right regimes and industry growth. We begin by developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273790
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Quality competition or quality cooperation? License-type and the strategic nature of open source vs. closed source business models
von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2010
In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit contract. The economics of open source (OS) versus...
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