This paper studies the impact of software piracy in a two-sidedmarket setting. Software platforms attract developers … higher with more software protection but the impact on user prices is ambiguous. A conflict between platforms and software … developers over software protection may arise: whereas one side benefits from better protection, the other party loses out. Under …

The open-source software operating system Linux is a free-of-charge substitute to proprietary systems like Microsoft … Windows. By using a cross-country data set, this paper finds evidence that increased piracy of proprietary software has a … Linux operating system on their desktop computers. Thus, in the absence of software piracy, Linux would be a more widely …

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 …