Difficulties in measuring the production of software might result in significant underestimation of economic growth …. The magnitude of this underestimation is likely to increase over time, if software development continues its current … million KB. The most recent version of the same software, Windows 10, was released in 2015 and is $119. It is 30 GB installed …

Proprietary software firms have recently begun to emulate the open source software community in opening up some of … their software. We analyze this phenomenon in the context of resource allocation between fixing defects and the development … of the next version of the software — an important issue that many software firms face in light of the prevalence of …

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 …

This study examines the persistence of software piracy with internet penetration vis-à-vis of PC users, conditional on … responsible for the persistence of global software piracy. Knowing how technology affects the persistence of piracy is important … because it enables more targeted policy initiatives. We show that the sensitivity of software piracy to IPRs mechanisms is …