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 …

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 …

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 …

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. <br> In this … context it appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a …

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

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co … say, a first best realization of contracts is not feasible.<br> Hence, open and closed source software are two second best …

consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it … a private good, licensing it under the BSD does not change the economic nature of the software while licensing it under … depending on her software project’s market potential and on the cost of developing it. The optimal licensing for a sequence of …

coherence of this strategy, we analyse the ability of these consortia to produce standards. Bearing in mind the exploratory … innovation?, they find it difficult to produce consortia standards by means of vertical coordination. Equally, we consider … various scenarios dealing with the construction of standards, examining in particular horizontal collaboration between these …

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative … institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …