To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the relevance and impacts of this distribution...

We study the conditions ruling the diffusion of open source as opposed to proprietary software distributed by a commercial editor. The two types of software differ in relation to their adoption costs and to the range of functionalities they offer. By distinguishing software users according to...