This Article analyzes legal protection for open-source software by comparing it to the venerable civil law tradition of … software use be royalty free. These conditions facilitate open-source collaborative software development. At the heart of both … Collaborative Integrity of open-source software. The history and legacy of moral rights help us better understand Collaborative …

This paper reviews the recent literature on the economics of open source software. Two different sets of issues are …

The paper discusses three key economic problems raised by the emergence and diffusion of Open source software … software development community that deliberately did not follow profit motivations. Second, a hierarchical coordination emerged …

Open source software projects rely on the voluntary efforts of thousands of software developers, yet we know little … framework for understanding participation from the perspective of the individual software developer based on data from two … software communities with different governance structures. In both communities, a need for software-related improvements drives …

The open source software development model has been hailed as the most significant change in computing since Apple … economy have had a rough time finding ways to stay afloat financially. While traditional software companies can generate … revenue from the sale of their intellectual property, this is hard to do with open source software because the developers …

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also …

During the '60s and the '70s, basically all software was Open Source and everyone was allowed to copy, modify and … redistribute computer programs. When software ceased to be hardware-specific and the diffusion of computers took off, firms started … to produce software independently from hardware and to protect their code through intellectual property rights. At …

For several years, an increasing number of firms are investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in …

For several years, an increasing number of firms are investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in …

innovation process. We have also seen the recent emergence of three ?open source? consortia: the Symbian and LiMo Foundations … innovation?, they find it difficult to produce consortia standards by means of vertical coordination. Equally, we consider …