Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Llanes, Gaston - NET Institute - 2009
source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model (where a few modules are open). When a firm … an open source (free) competitor. This hampers the firm's ability to capture value. We analyze three competitive … situations: monopoly, commercial firm vs. non-profit open source project, and duopoly. We show that: (i) firms may become "more …