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the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride … information, job signaling, repeated contribution to the public good and uncertainty in programming. The resulting game does not … programming skills; the startup (and collapse) of an OSS project displays bandwagon dynamics. …
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Contributions to public goods simulated in economists' laboratoryexperiments have two peculiarities from the perspective ofstatistical modelling. There is a variety of contributor behaviours(Ledyard, 1995), suggestive perhaps of separate classes ofindividuals, and contributions are doubly...
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This papers sheds light on the puzzling evidence that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young and motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that once OSS development is understood as the private provision of a...
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Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … by contributions to projects that increase external visibility of existing works, are written in programming languages …
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