This papers sheds light on the puzzling evidence that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is … in the wider OSS literature and contribute new insights to the economic analysis. -- open source software ; public goods …

analysis draws on a large sample of projects registered at Sourceforge.net, the world’s largest incubator of open source … software activity. We explore the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for … Skills, Division of Labor and Performance in Collective Inventions. Evidence from the Open Source Software …

This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement. We highlight how many aspects of open source … software appear initially puzzling to an economist. As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the …

deutschen Softwaremarkt, stellt dann die verschiedenen Erscheinungsformen von Open Source Software (OSS) dar, beleuchtet die …

open source software. We argue that the particular way in which open source projects are managed and especially how …