Many of them argue that the open source software is free and free from intellectual property protection clutches. This … paper argues that this notion is a myth when taking into account the percentage of proprietary software usage all over the … software industry. This study substantiates that the neutrality of government promotes innovation and development rather than …

incentives of actors to disclose about their software or systems. A chief point of this paper is that the incentives for … matrix, where disclosure for security and competition are assessed for three types of systems or software: Open Source …; proprietary software; and government systems. The paper finds greater convergence on disclosure between Open Source and …

This Article analyzes legal protection for open-source software by comparing it to the venerable civil law tradition of … software use be royalty free. These conditions facilitate open-source collaborative software development. At the heart of both … Collaborative Integrity of open-source software. The history and legacy of moral rights help us better understand Collaborative …

applications to adopt open source software in their firms. We characterize the conditions under which enterprises adopt open source … software. We show that adoption depends crucially on network effects, the fit of software with the range of applications used … architecture that consists of open source and proprietary software. The equilibrium adoption is often socially inefficient. This is …

Open-source software(OSS) programs (e.g. LINUX, Apache) provide access to the source code to any interested party. This … of this paper is to help managers who have to choose between OSS and commercial software. Not all OSS products are free …