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 … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

Software firms often remove some functions of his product and sell the damaged version at a lower or zero price. This …

By software vendors offering, via the cloud, software as a service (SaaS) versions of traditionally on …-premises application software, security risks associated with usage become more diversified which can greatly increase the value associated … with the software. In an environment where negative security externalities are present and users make complex consumption …

We present a framework for measuring software quality using pricing and demand data, and empirical estimates that … quantify the extent of quality degradation associated with software versioning. Using a 7-month, 108-product panel of software … sales from Amazon.com, we document the extent to which quality varies across different software versions, estimating quality …

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …

) ; Software Piracy ; Religion ; Enforcement …