two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model … where users participate in software development. I show that the OS model of production may be more efficient from the point …

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 …

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 … welfare. We show that dual licensing may be used as a complement for proprietary software when development spillovers are …

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this … context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit … develop software, either as OS or CS, or as a an OS-CS-mix if the license allows. In stage two, firms bundle this with …

Open Source Software (OSS) has grown in importance over the last few decades and now constitutes an important part of … the software market particularly in mobile and web technology. In this paper, we provide a preliminary theoretical … and proprietary software. We start by looking at the upstream market where developers voluntarily contribute effort into …

externalities and the compatibility between open source and proprietary software can change the impact of open source software on …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 …

This paper studies pricing strategies for a commercial software provider who faces competition from both a free …-of-charge open-source software substitute and illegal copies of its own product. When network externalities are present, the … commercial software provider may choose to set a price sufficiently low such that a critical mass of users is not attainable for …

A large number of studies has been canvassed by the growing rates of diffusion of Open Source Software. However, a … formal analysis of the process of competition between open–source and proprietary software is still missing. We propose an … epidemic model of innovation diffusion to deal with the different factors (profits for proprietary software and developers …

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this … context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit … develop software, either as OS or CS, or as a an OS-CS-mix if the license allows. In stage two, firms bundle this with …

In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this … context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit … software, either as OS or CS, or as a an OS-CS-mix if the license allows. In stage two, firms bundle this with complementary …