How Open Source and Closed Source Business Structure Can Mutually Exist?

The phenomenon of producing Open Source Software (OSS) based on unconstrained access to source code and the swift growth of the open source business structure of producing software fuelled by Linux Operating System and Apache Web Server have raised important questions, which is of immense scholastic interest. Accordingly many scholars in the last few years have endeavored to clarify as to why thousands of top-quality programmers contribute freely to an open source product which is a public good. However, in this paper an attempt has been to explain as to how open source and closed source business structure of producing software can coexist. Accordingly, this paper presents two distinct models, two games trying to explain why open source programmers will coexist alongside closed source programmers