In the ICT sector, product-software is an important factor for the quality of the products (e.g. cell phones). In this … context, open source software enables firms to avoid quality competition as they can cooperate on quality without an explicit … software, either as OS or CS, or as a an OS-CS-mix if the license allows. In stage two, firms bundle this with complementary …

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 …

We investigate teamwork among maintainers of open source software projects by analyzing the logs of a set of 10 large …

This paper looks at price and quality competition in software markets under two different forms of competition - one … faces competition from an open source software firm that allows its users to determine quality level and provides the … software at zero price. We find that OSS competition never improves quality for consumers who value quality highly. However, it …

The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all … interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process: open source software development is done … by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data from Sourceforge.net, the largest repository of Open Source …

Open standards and open source have become essential for ICT markets from an innovation, business, technical, and …', some views have pointed to a ‘clear-cut' division between open and close standards. Rather than a pure binary approach this … different existing typologies of ICT standards and aims to evaluate their degree of openness in each of these dimensions. The …

Information Maximum Likelihood Method. The results show that the software-user license, age of the project, project status …, certain types of potential users, and compatibility with certain operating systems have a statistically significant impact on … project popularity. An interesting finding is that GPL, the most widely used software license has an adverse impact on the …

the long run. We use our model to study whether patents are inefficient, and to explain firms' behavior in the software …