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Intellectual property rights and ex-post transaction costs: the case of open and closed source software

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co-exist. It is about the efficient use of a non- and anti-scarce resource. But because of ex-post transaction costs that lead to information asymmetries, some property rights...

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Open source software, closed source software or both: impacts on industry growth and the role of intellectual property rights

von Engelhardt, Sebastian; Swaminathan, Sushmita - 2008

, copyright to patent protection. Such an analysis is beneficial as it enables an objective comparison of the three scenarios … that the move from no protection to copyright protection increases the maximum growth rate. However, despite assuming … properly functioning patents, the benefits of moving from copyright to patent protection are less clear. …

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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results

von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2011

For a decade, economists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. It is developed in a public, collaborative manner by thousands of non-paid volunteers as well as profit seeking firms. Today, OSS is...

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What economists know about open source software its basic principles and research results

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2011

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Geographic allocation of OSS contributions : the role of institutions and culture

Engelhardt, Sebastian; Freytag, Andreas - 2009

So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS …

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Open Source Software, Closed Source Software or Both : Impacts on Industry Growth and the Role of Intellectual Property Rights

Engelhardt, Sebastian von - 2014

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Software Piracy and Linux Adoption

Gramstad, Arne - 2016

The open-source software operating system Linux is a free-of-charge substitute to proprietary systems like Microsoft Windows. By using a cross-country data set, this paper finds evidence that increased piracy of proprietary software has a negative impact on adoption of desktop versions of Linux....

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