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Hot Debate About Chilling Effects : Do Software Patterns Hamper/Free Open Source Software Development?

Bernauer, Thomas; Dapp, Marcus M. - 2014

The innovation-model in the free/open source software (FOSS) domain differs fundamentally from the innovation-model in …

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Share and Share Alike : Understanding and Enforcing Open Source and Free Software Licenses

Carver, Brian W. - 2014

This paper describes the history and the commonly used software licensing terms of the free software and open source movements. It explains the GPL and discusses attempts to enforce the GPL. The GPL is a revolutionary copyright license that has allowed software developers to use existing law to...

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Software Innovation and the Open Source Threat

Lambardi, German - 2014

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is, or might become Open Source. Firms can either be proprietary source (PS) or open source (OS) and have different initial technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit...

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Consumer Welfare and Market Structure in a Model of Competition between Open Source and Proprietary Software

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2014

I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...

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Slouching toward Open Innovation : Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Electronic Health Information

Vetter, Greg R. - 2014

The potential for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to enable open innovation in a particular software market …

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OSS Production and Licensing Strategies of Software Firms

Koski, Heli A. - 2014

have participated in open source software development projects. This finding is consistent with earlier studies that have …

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Free Software and Intellectual Property in Brazil : Threats, Opportunites and Motivations

Buainain, Antonio M.; Mendes, Cassia I. C. - 2014

This article discusses the implications of the intellectual property system as applied to software, especially the use of patents, for innovation in developing countries; it also assesses the possible consequences of the appearance of free software and a new intellectual property system in the...

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Software Marketing on the Internet : The Use of Samples and Repositories

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2014

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is whether to offer free samples and if so, whether to list the samples on shareware repositories. I show that firms with higher value products have a greater incentive to offer free...

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Open Source Drug Discovery : Finding a Niche (or Maybe Several)

Maurer, Stephen M. - 2014

Despite their novelty and importance, open source methods have been largely been limited to software. However, scholars have long suggested that it would be logical to organize at least one other field - drug discovery - using open source principles. This paper reviews today's relatively...

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Pragmatism Not Ideology : IBM's Love Affair with Open Source Software

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

Today IBM is perceived as being in the vanguard of open source software and a leading participant in the free software … that IBM's embrace of open source software comes not from a new-found ideology, but from its history of pragmatism. Simply …, but because it has been fleet-footed and practical. Its adoption of open source software is in exactly this spirit. In the …

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