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 …

Application software is one of the most important elements of any information system. The most recent trend in the … field of the software is, undoubtedly, migration of classic applications from centralized computer architectures to network … tools are dealt with in the paper and software base in the enterprises of the South-East Europe and modes of the creation …

The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting … considered is the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. The paper finds that the production process is hierarchical notwithstanding … the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But voluntary FS …

set of opportunities for innovation in agricultural biotechnologies. Moreover, the institutional, regulatory and …

This paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software … differences between proprietary software and open source software with respect to these market features and ask whether open … source as an alternative to proprietary software can mitigate these problems. Then we discuss the implications of various …

’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally … patented.Open source paradigm — here explored — could resolve the software patentability issue, in addition to represent the …

The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers … hypothesis is actually an empirically grounded result. -- Free/Libre/Open Source Software ; Incentives to Innovate ; Dynamics of …

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact …'s launch. The second is that the actual receipt of sponsorship has a long-lasting negative effect on innovation, as measured by …

technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with …

-source software (OSS). We distinguish between internal contributors affiliated with target firms and external contributors from the … effects of acquisitions observed in traditional corporate innovation. While internal contributors reduce contributions to …