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What Economists Know about Open Source Software - Its Basic Principles and Research Results
Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free …-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is well established in the ICT sector and represents a new intellectual … property paradigm. This paper provides an introduction into the topic OSS versus closed source software (CSS, also called …
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Who Starts with Open Source? Institutional Choice of Start-Ups in the German ICT Sector
Fritsch, Michael; Engelhardt, Sebastian von - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS …-based business model has increased considerably over the last several years. OSS-based firms tend to be smaller (in terms of staff … and capital) and experience less shortages of capital. Only older cohorts of OSS-intensive start-ups had more difficulty …
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Entry Strategies Under Competing Standards: Hybrid Business Models in the Open Source Software Industry
Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Giannangeli, Silvia; Rossi, Cristina - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1085-1098
The paper analyzes the strategies of software firms that have entered the open source (OS) field. The notion of the OS business model is discussed in the light of a substantial body of theoretical literature concerning strategic management and the economics of innovation, as well as specialized...
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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497689
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Consumer Welfare and Market Structure in a Model of Competition Between Open Source and Proprietary Software
Gaudeul, Alexia - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 2008
I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032061
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Growth Effects of non Proprietary Innovation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2002
We study an endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R and D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051544
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Growth Effects of Non-Proprietary Innovation
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We study and endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R&D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones, which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662038
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The Architecture of Participation: Does Code Architecture Mitigate Free Riding in the Open Source Development Model?
Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Clark, Kim B. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1116-1127
This paper argues that the architecture of a codebase is a critical factor that lies at the heart of the open source development process. We define two observable properties of an architecture: (1) modularity and (2) option value. Developers can often make informed judgments about modularity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191452
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COOPERATIVE INVESTMENT DECISIONS IN COMMUNITY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
LIU, MANLU; ZENG, DANIEL D.; ZHAO, J. LEON - In: International Journal of Information Technology & … 13 (2014) 01, pp. 5-28
Community source development has emerged as a new way of developing enterprise applications, leading to a unique type of open source development involving collaborative investment decisions by multiple institutional partners. A critical research question is what motivates partnering institutions...
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Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance
Scotchmer, Suzanne - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2010
The open source movement evolved in the one industrial context where openness is not required by intellectual property law.1 Nevertheless, openness itself cannot be the driving force behind the open source movement. This is because openness can be achieved in many ways other than the GPL, for...
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