Purpose: A growing number of open source software emerges in many segments of the software market. In addition …, software products usually exhibit network externalities. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of open source … software on the quality strategies of proprietary software vendors when the market presents positive network externalities …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

The open source model, initially spawned by anti-proprietary ideology, was adopted by the software industry as a viable … alternative to proprietary software. Along with the open source paradigm, commercial firms also adopted the GPL, a restrictive … license that manifested the core objectives of the Free Software Foundation (“FSF”). This segment that adopted the open source …

source software, highlighting the development processes performed by software programmers, the motivations of its …An empirical study of open source software usability: the industrial perspective / Arif Raza, Luiz Fernando Capretz …, Faheem Ahmed -- Factors affecting the development of absorptive capacity in the adoption of open source software / Kris Ven …