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 …

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 …

free open-source versions of commercial software products. The effect of the release of open-source versions on the … option for firms that compete in the market for software products. Of particular importance in our model is the effect of …

This paper looks at price and quality competition in software markets under two different forms of competition - one … faces competition from an open source software firm that allows its users to determine quality level and provides the … software at zero price. We find that OSS competition never improves quality for consumers who value quality highly. However, it …

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 …