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 …

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 …

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 …

Open Source software, developed by a community of mostly volunteers programmers and available on the web free of charge …, offers important opportunities to software firms. The availability of such free productive factor, in fact, cuts the … source software depends mostly on some features of the incumbents' business models. In details, the probability to carry out …

Open source software (OSS) development teams use informal communication to coordinate their work towards common goals …. According to software engineering folklore, the architecture and the organization of the final product depend on the …

We use a Hotelling linear city model to study competition between open source and proprietary software, where only the … producer of the proprietary software aims at maximizing the profit. The producer of the proprietary software must decide on … for the producer of the proprietary software. We found that the proprietary producer's choice of compatibility strategy …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …