This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …

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 strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

intangible components, namely the software necessary for their operation, we have chosen to address in this paper the problems of … software products and the principles of circular economy. Thus, the paper presents the main opportunities and challenges that … circular economy involves for all stakeholders, namely manufacturers of electronic goods and developers of the related software …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

This paper examines open source software development in a competitive environment. The quality of open source software … augments competitors' software quality in future periods subject to compatibility considerations with their existing software …. A differential game model is developed to understand why firms are increasingly involved in open source software …

Firms have the choice of developing software as either open source or closed source. The open-source approach to … software development has been advocated as a new and better method for developing high quality software than the traditional … closed-source approach. In open source, volunteer programmers freely contribute code to develop and improve the software …

This paper examines the open source and free software movements, and the adaptation of these principles in the context …

Open source software and the movement behind it, the Open Source Software Movement unknown to many has been in … existence since long. Discussed in the article is this concept with relevance to the software industry. The US statutes on … sourcing, which have turned out to be the buzzwords in the computer software industry are also brought into limelight. A look …