one product. Three case studies based on the experiences of companies Sleepycat Software Inc., MySQL AB, and TrollTech AS …

free open-source versions of commercial software products. The effect of the release of open-source versions on the … option for firms that compete in the market for software products. Of particular importance in our model is the effect of …

employing firms too if they get some strategic value from the open source software and/ or if the productivity of the …

"This book examines how use of open source software (OSS) is affecting society, business, government, education, and …Section 1. Culture, Society, and Open Source Software -- 1. Free Software Philosophy and Open Source -- 2. Greasemonkey … and a Challenge to Notions of Authorship -- 3. Morality and Pragmatism in Free Software and Open Source -- 4. Hacker …

’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally … patented.Open source paradigm — here explored — could resolve the software patentability issue, in addition to represent the …

source software, highlighting the development processes performed by software programmers, the motivations of its …An empirical study of open source software usability: the industrial perspective / Arif Raza, Luiz Fernando Capretz …, Faheem Ahmed -- Factors affecting the development of absorptive capacity in the adoption of open source software / Kris Ven …