SourceForge.net to estimate the main determinants of the progress in the development of a stable and mature code of an open source … software. We show that projects geared towards sophisticated users (i.e. system administrators) or projects aimed at developing …

and more diffused in the technology development process of business sectors like (open source) software. Third … open source software. This paper discusses these different models of intellectual property protection and their … simultaneously operate. A first case is the software industry, where open source software is simultaneously made available with …

The empirical studies relative to the Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) case stress the important role played by …

: This paper has been prepared for "The Economics of Open Source Software Development", J¨urgen Bitzer and Philipp J. H. Schr …

. However, most empirical analyses focus on individual developers and neglect firms that do business with Open Source software …

, 2005 Acknowledgements This dissertation builds upon three years of research on open source software development at the … alternative to →CVS) DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ESR Eric S. Raymond FLOSS free/libre/open source software … FOSS free/open source software FS free (→ libre) software FSF Free Software Foundation GDBM GNU database manager GNU the …

the General Public License (GPL) used in the provision of open source software is one of such mechanisms. Our results are …