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 …

two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model … where users participate in software development. I show that the OS model of production may be more efficient from the point …

two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model … where users participate in software development. I show that the OS model of production may be more efficient from the point …

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. <br> In this … context it appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a …

two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model … where users participate in software development. I show that the OS model of production may be more efficient from the point …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co … say, a first best realization of contracts is not feasible. Hence, open and closed source software are two second best …

The economic characteristics of software and transaction costs explain, why closed source and open source software co … say, a first best realization of contracts is not feasible. Hence, open and closed source software are two second best …

guarantee through copyright an adequate (and not exaggerate) software legal protection …’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 …

source projects. Increasing firms’ participation in the development of open source software (OSS) is generally perceived as a …