A central tenet of the open source software development methodology is that the community of users and developers is … instrumental in improving the quality of software. I conceptualize open source communities as information repositories to … understand how community members help in improving software quality. The information repository contains the accumulated …

software at different organizational levels …

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 …

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 …

Economists and legal scholars have debated the reasons people adopt open source software, and accordingly whether and … study, we use the release by a biotechnology company of similar software under both proprietary and open source licenses to … investigate who uses open source software and why. We find that academic users are somewhat more likely to adopt open source …

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 rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …

There has been much attention given to the promising benefits of open source software (OSS) for the development of the … domestic software industries of developing countries. This study attempts to build a base for scholarly research on the subject …