What happens in the cloud? Copyright owners are concerned. Users of cloud services upload, share and download copies of software and other files without their permission and access copyrighted works beyond or in violation of access limitations. Providers of cloud services are deploying novel...

This paper gives an exhaustive literature review of the techniques and models available to measure the productivity of software development teams. Definition of productivity, measuring individual programmer's productivity, and measuring software development team productivity are discussed. Based...

This document is a descriptive study that aims to discover and analyze the elements that characterize the leadership oriented to value creation and development of innovation in organizations. The methodology is based on the application of Short Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ 5X) of...

We study the problem of optimally allocating effort between software construction and debugging. As construction proceeds, new errors are introduced into the system. The objective is to deliver a system of the highest possible quality (fewest number of errors) subject to the constraint that N...

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting-point, this article systematically elaborates the central qualities of the commodity which have implications for its production and cost structure, the demand, the...

This article analyzes the judgment of the Court of First Instance in Microsoft Corp v Commission of the European Communities, not as a competition law decision but as an important ruling on interoperability. In so doing, this article aims to explain how and why interoperability is not an...

The presence of an open source software community has provided firms with a non-monetary compensation dimension: the firm can substitute wages for the flexibility it gives its programmers to participate in open source projects. The problem for the software firm is to determine the optimal extent...

This book chapter traces the strange odyssey of interfaces through various forms of intellectual property protection. Interface specifications were initially either public domain documents or protected as trade secrets, depending on whether or not they were published. For a time, it seemed as...

This article examines software contracting through the lens of cybersecurity in order to examine a series of terms and practices that arguably reduce the general level of cybersecurity. Part I considers clauses that undermine cybersecurity by suppressing public knowledge about software security...

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, people in the software industry often said that the coming of patents would spell doom, particularly for small companies. The entry of new firms - the seedbed of growth in the industry - would dry up, and only large, bureaucratic and decidedly non-innovative...