Search Results - subject:"Open‐source software"

Commercial Free and Open Source Software : Knowledge Production, Hybrid Appropriability, and Patents

Vetter, Greg R. - 2014

Free and open source software (FOSS) is a movement continually gathering accolades as a non-market based system of …

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Teiu, Codrin Marius - 2014

As the quality of open source software increased dramatically over the last decade and important commercial producers … current state in open source software development. This paper approaches some of the aspects the open source producers are …

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Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance

Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2014

Open source collaborations are increasingly among commercial firms whose interest is profit. Why would profit-motivated firms voluntarily share code? One reason is that cost reductions can outweigh increases in rivalry. This is especially persuasive when the contributors make complementary...

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Competitive Strategy for Open Source Software

Kumar, Vineet; Gordon, Brett R.; Srinivasan, Kannan - 2014

Commercial open source software (COSS) products --- privately developed software based on publicly available source …

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Open Source Development with a Commercial Complementary Product or Service

Haruvy, Ernan; Sethi, Suresh P.; Zhou, Jing - 2014

We examine optimal control decisions regarding pricing, network size and hiring strategy in the context of open source … software development. Opening the source code to a software product often implies that consumers would not pay for the software …

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From Products to Services : The Software Industry in the Internet Era

Campbell-Kelly, Martin; Garcia-Swartz, Daniel D. - 2014

software vendors forward integrated into computer services. We also consider the impact on the industry of open-source software …

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A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects

Singh, Param Vir; Youn, Nara; Tan, Yong - 2014

This study examines whether developers learn from their experience and from interactions with peers in OSS projects. A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is proposed that allows us to investigate (1) the extent to which OSS developers actually learn from their own experience and from interactions with...

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Collaboration, Peer Review and Open Source Software

Johnson, Justin P. - 2014

Open source software development may be superior to proprietary development because the open source organizational form …

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Acceptance of monetary rewards in open source software development

Krishnamurthy, Sandeep; Ou, Shaosong; Tripathi, Arvind K. - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 4, pp. 632-644

The open source software (OSS) movement thrives on innovation and volunteer effort of developers. Scholars have …

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Creating technological knowledge in vintage communities of practice

Schiavone, Francesco; Borzillo, Stefano - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 18 (2014) 5, pp. 991-1003

-phase knowledge creation process in an open-source software community (OSSC) that supports the MAME community: knowledge selection and …

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