Free/Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) diffusion represents one of the main evolutions of the Information Technology … thus starting from the basic conditions of the computer market and of the buyers' competence in software development (the …

Software platforms are a critical component of the computer systems underpinning leading? edge products ranging from … third? generation mobile phones to video games. After describing some key economic features of computer systems and software …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds out proprietary innovation which on net may reduce total innovation … in the long run. These effects would be reinforced if philanthropical innovation diverted people from other productive …

In this Paper, I explore the circumstances under which innovation processes without secrecy or intellectual property …

of embedded Linux, a type of open source software. To explain the observed phenomenon of voluntary revealing, I develop a …

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …

Open source software is emerging as a potentially important competitive force in the software industry, capturing the … attention of venture capitalists and computing industry executives. Yet very little is known about how open source software …, which is created collectively by individual volunteers, will compete with closed source software. This paper models open …

A central tenet of the open source software development methodology is that the community of users and developers is … instrumental in improving the quality of software. I conceptualize open source communities as information repositories to … understand how community members help in improving software quality. The information repository contains the accumulated …

expansión tecnológica. Se discute el papel del software libre y cómo los nuevos enfoques para el desarrollo de software pueden … shaping the objectives and goals for IT expansion. We discuss the role of open source software and how new approaches for … software development can turn the ambitious aims into reality …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …