between two IPR regimes: open source software (OSS) or closed source software (CSS). The share of new firms with an OSS …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side, it receives development help from …

of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright …-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a …

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 … develop software, either as OS or CS, or as a an OS-CS-mix if the license allows. In stage two, firms bundle this with …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side; it receives development help from …

Arbeitender, die durch eine rechtlich spezifische Lizenz ein „oeffentliches Gut“ erstellen, neben kommerzieller Software eine hohe …

composed of a primary good (like software) and a complementary private good. The only difference between both kinds of firms is …

We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services … three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open … situations: monopoly, commercial firm vs. non-profit open source project, and duopoly. We show that: (i) firms may become "more …

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 …