Digital Library initiatives are gaining momentum and many open source digital library software emerged. These … developments necessitate universal standard for digital library software. Conforming the software to universal standard means … compromising local requirements. No matter how general the software may be, suitability of the digital library software to specific …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side; it receives development help from …

The innovation-model in the free/open source software (FOSS) domain differs fundamentally from the innovation-model in … the proprietary software domain. Many FOSS advocates claim that opportunities for software patenting, which have recently … been expanded in some countries and are used primarily in the proprietary software realm, have negative effects on FOSS …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side, it receives development help from …

software at different organizational levels …

expansión tecnológica. Se discute el papel del software libre y cómo los nuevos enfoques para el desarrollo de software pueden … shaping the objectives and goals for IT expansion. We discuss the role of open source software and how new approaches for … software development can turn the ambitious aims into reality …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …