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Open Source Software Development Patterns and License Terms
Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the choice of license terms along the development of a piece of software. Three licenses are … compared, the proprietary one, the Berkeley Software Distribution, and the General Public License. The choice of one or the … other license depends on the characteristics of the software's user base, the market conditions on the developers' job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412979
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Competition between open-source and proprietary software: the (La)TeX case study
Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004
and compares those two models and then analyzes the influence the development of one type of software has on the … the development of the (La)TeX software were compared to its proprietary equivalents. The models that are presented in … this paper describe some aspects of the strategic interactions between proprietary and open-source software. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561482
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The LaTeX project: A case study of open source software
Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2004
The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source … uncovered in previous studies of other open source software projects, such as GNU/Linux, an operating system, and Apache, a web … that are at work and influence the project. The case study explores the economic impact of the TeX software which is sold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561394
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Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter
Economides, Nicholas - EconWPA - 1997
We discuss the incentive of an exclusive holder of a technology to share it with competitors in a market with network externalities. We assume that high expected sales increase the willingness to pay for the good. This is named the "network effect". At a stable fulfilled expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561463
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Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Goods have Network Effects
CONRAD, Klaus - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of our approach is to develop a model which captures horizontal product differentiation under environmental awareness, product innovation under network effects, and price competition whereby environmentally friendly products are costlier to produce. As an example, we refer to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412974
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The LaTeX project: A case study of open-source software
Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004
This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released … program's code, the software that is part of the TeX distribution, the newsgroups dedicated to the software, and many other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412972
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497690
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia - 2008
The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032055
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Competition among proprietary and open-source software firms : the role of licensing in strategic contribution
August, Terrence; Chen, Wei; Zhu, Kevin - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 67 (2021) 5, pp. 3041-3066
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581295
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Developers' incentives and open-source software licensing : GPL vs BSD
Atal, Vidya; Shankar, Kameshwari - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1381-1416
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428245