To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the relevance and impacts of this distribution...

We develop an optimal control model to maximize the net value provided by a software system over its useful life. The model determines the initial number of features in the system, the level of dynamic enhancement effort, and the lifetime of the system. The various factors affecting these...

As quantitative research grows, application of statistical software (SS) becomes a more crucial part of data analysis. Researchers are experiencing a transition from manual analysis with paper to more efficient digital/electronic analysis with statistical software (SS). It identifies the...

The open source model, initially spawned by anti-proprietary ideology, was adopted by the software industry as a viable alternative to proprietary software. Along with the open source paradigm, commercial firms also adopted the GPL, a restrictive license that manifested the core objectives of...

The EU software patent could be the long awaited resolve to an extensive debate around software. The resolution should be based on the understanding of the copyright and patent basics, the legal conflict between territoriality and the internet, the experience of the existing US software patent,...

Today's internet presumes that individuals use software to make their own decisions to regulate spam, security, indecent content, and privacy. This emphasis assumes that individuals are both interested in and capable of setting filters, settings, and preferences. This assumption is worrying --...

Collaboration between organizations raises significant knowledge management issues, especially in software development of complex projects, in which both product and process are themselves knowledge. While research has examined direct, explicit flows of knowledge within project aspects, or...

This analysis attempts to illustrate geographic and demographic drivers of Internet-enabled piracy in China using publicly available data on Internet searches provided by Google and Baidu, China’s most prominent search engine. Using a basket of search terms selected because they appear to be...

This article aims to provide courts and policymakers with an analytical framework that, building upon the traditional rationales of IP exhaustion doctrine, identifies factors which advocate for a modulation or flexibilization of the role of exhaustion in copyright law. Factors include (i) the...

Software engineers overwhelmingly dislike software patents and consider nearly all of them obvious. Are they correct, or do they simply not understand the law? To answer this, we look at obviousness law in an industry whose practitioners generally accept and value patents: pharmaceuticals, and...