Open Source Digital Library Software packages have much potential for modern Library and Information Centers. It is the … software that you can modify, fix, add to, and distribute to others. The Open Source Software (OSS) is becoming an increasingly … popular software development method and it provides tips for implementing and evaluating your modulation and suggestions to …

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

Over the last 20 years, open source development has become an integral part of the software industry and a key … open source software projects and their changing relationships to established IT companies. This is followed by the …

The open-source software (OSS) production model has been gaining ground and even expanding to a broader class of … frequency, contingent on the installed base of the project, its quality enhancement, and the license type of the software …-enabled, crowd-based collaboration in open innovation communities beyond open-source software development, launch, and adoption …

This paper analyzes the competitive strategy of proprietary software (PS) firm in the presence of open-source software … (OSS) where the copyright holder has granted software users access and use of OSS without any obligation regarding source … can provide OSS quality upgrades. We find that both types of software can coexist in equilibrium. Furthermore, despite the …

The open source model, initially spawned by anti-proprietary ideology, was adopted by the software industry as a viable … alternative to proprietary software. Along with the open source paradigm, commercial firms also adopted the GPL, a restrictive … license that manifested the core objectives of the Free Software Foundation (“FSF”). This segment that adopted the open source …

Software producers may choose to deliver products through a community of external institutions or individuals rather …