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.<br> Hence, open and closed source software are two second best …

“Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry … for the enduring principles it lays out; for the lessons taught by software platforms that transformed the economy from …

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 …

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 … welfare. We show that dual licensing may be used as a complement for proprietary software when development spillovers are …

consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it … a private good, licensing it under the BSD does not change the economic nature of the software while licensing it under … depending on her software project’s market potential and on the cost of developing it. The optimal licensing for a sequence of …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

intangible components, namely the software necessary for their operation, we have chosen to address in this paper the problems of … software products and the principles of circular economy. Thus, the paper presents the main opportunities and challenges that … circular economy involves for all stakeholders, namely manufacturers of electronic goods and developers of the related software …