There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …

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 …

distinct from computer software. Rather than being revolutionary, this movement is quite conservatively recapturing and …

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 …

growth and organisational change in developing countries; microfinance institutions are using open source software (OSS) to … paper is how community-based development of software-enabled information systems can allow local capacity building and … & Williams' biography of software; this enables us to explore the links between the software life performance and the milieu of …

This paper examines the open source and free software movements, and the adaptation of these principles in the context …

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 …