Many software products are available free of charge. While the benefits resulting from network externality have been … examined in the related literature, the effect of free offer on the diffusion of new software has not been formally analyzed …. We show in this study that even if other benefits do not exist, a software firm can still benefit from giving away fully …

Software interoperability information is indispensable in establishing connections among the parts of a program and to … the function of software interoperability information has a bottleneck effect in restricting competition, the conceptual … portions of software interoperability information are not protected under copyright, and software interoperability interfaces …