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Purpose: A growing number of open source software emerges in many segments of the software market. In addition …, software products usually exhibit network externalities. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of open source … software on the quality strategies of proprietary software vendors when the market presents positive network externalities …
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We analyze the characteristics of the patents held by firms in the software industry. Unlike prior researchers, we rely … on examination of the individual patents to determine which patents involve software inventions. This method of … from which we can learn more about the role of patents in the software industry. In general, we find that the patents …
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We analyze competition between two platforms with positive network externalities. Platforms can choose to interconnect or alternatively, operate exclusively. We examine how this decision will affect pricing behaviour and incentives to invest in Platform quality. We find that interconnection is...
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