Search Results - subject:"Open source Software"

Python for unified research in econometrics and statistics

Bilina, Roseline; Lawford, Steve - HAL - 2012

Python is a powerful high level open source programming language, that is available for multiple platforms. It supports object oriented programming, and has recently become a serious alternative to low level compiled languages such as C. It is easy to learn and use, and is recognized for very...

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EGOVERNMENT: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE FUTURE OF GOVERNMENT DIGITISATION

Georgescu, Mircea - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2012) 14, pp. 6-6

In the last five years, the new waves in Information and Communication Technologiestogether with the increase of mobile technologies have developed new possibilities for thecollaboration between the governments and the citizens. Year by year, the governments are usinghuge quantities of ICT...

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THE POLITICS OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE - A TREND TOWARDS LIBERALIZATION IN E-GOVERNMENT

Codrin-Marius, TEIU - In: Revista Economica 64.6 (2012) 6, pp. 107-117

This paper is synthesizing world policies regarding the adoption of software in the public sector. The point of interest is represented by policies from the EU and how they evolved in time, but there will be presented a few cases of policy making from other countries because they represented...

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Government-Mandated Open Source Development : The Case Study of Venezuela

Maldonado, Edgar; Tapia, Andrea - 2012

This research examines the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which because of high revenues from oil exports finds itself in the unique position of possessing the economic ability to support the development of an internal Information Economy. Simultaneously, The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela...

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Open Source, ICT Infrastructure and Firm Performance

Cerquera, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - 2012

The rapid diffusion of open source software (OSS), the significant investments observed in OSS projects, and the new … open source software applications has no impact on firm level labor productivity, while the adoption of open source …

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Android and the Political Economy of the Mobile Internet : A Renewal of Open Source Critique

Spreeuwenberg, Kimberley; Poell, Thomas - 2012

This paper examines how and why Google in developing Android, the popular mobile operating system, has strategically adopted particular open source practices, but ignored others. It explores how through these practices, the corporation has been able to cultivate and control a vast mobile...

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Why Open Source Software Can Succeed

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Rossi-Lamastra, Cristina - 2012

The paper discusses three key economic problems raised by the emergence and diffusion of Open source software …

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From Planning to Mature : On the Determinants of Open Source Take-Off

Manenti, Fabio M.; Comino, Stefano; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2012

users to satisfy their specific needs; the more a software evolves towards a stable release able to address the requirements of its developers, the more successful the project. In this paper we use a large data-set obtained from SourceForge.net to estimate the impact of observed project...

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Software Patents and Open Source : The Battle Over Intellectual Property Rights

Layne-Farrar, Anne; Evans, David S. - 2012

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a …

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Adaptive Entry Strategies Under Dominant Standards - Hybrid Business Models in the Open Source Software Industry

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Rossi Lamastra, Cristina; … - 2012

particular many agents supply both proprietary and Open Source software. We present a model of adoption that studies the intra … Source software (OSS) issues, there is still lack of empirical data on the phenomenon, and little is known about firms that … cases, it performs even better than the traditional proprietary one. Although a growing body of literature is analyzing Open …

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