This paper reviews the recent literature on the economics of open source software. Two different sets of issues are …

Open source software projects rely on the voluntary efforts of thousands of software developers, yet we know little … framework for understanding participation from the perspective of the individual software developer based on data from two … software communities with different governance structures. In both communities, a need for software-related improvements drives …

The open source software development model has been hailed as the most significant change in computing since Apple … economy have had a rough time finding ways to stay afloat financially. While traditional software companies can generate … revenue from the sale of their intellectual property, this is hard to do with open source software because the developers …

During the '60s and the '70s, basically all software was Open Source and everyone was allowed to copy, modify and … redistribute computer programs. When software ceased to be hardware-specific and the diffusion of computers took off, firms started … to produce software independently from hardware and to protect their code through intellectual property rights. At …

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 …

For several years, an increasing number of firms are investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in …

For several years, an increasing number of firms are investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in …

The paper presents a dynamic perspective on the landscape of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) developers … hypothesis is actually an empirically grounded result. -- Free/Libre/Open Source Software ; Incentives to Innovate ; Dynamics of …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

technology. Using free and open source software as an example, we develop a model where this phenomenon is confronted with …