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 … without the support of an organization with proprietary rights. Third, Linux and other open source systems diffused in an …

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 …

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

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 …

In spite of Microsoft´s quasi monopoly position in the market for operating systems Linux has succeeded to become a …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

may even reduce welfare. The reason is that it crowds our proprietary innovation, which on net may reduce total innovation …