Search Results - subject:"Open source software"

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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The Role of Social Conventions in the Diffusion of Open Source Software : Implications for Service Industries

Kim, Jai-Boem - 2012

In information and service products such as open source software, increasing returns occur on the production or supply … side, as well as network externalities on the demand side. For open source software, the social community element needs to … herding behaviour are fundamental to the growth of the open source software. Such social conventions legitimise value and …

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Applying Elinor Ostrom’s Rule Classification Framework to the Analysis of Open Source Software Commons

Kitsing, Meelis - 2012

This research investigates the utility of Ostrom and Crawford's rule classification framework (elaborated in Understanding Institutional Diversity) in the systematic study of rule systems in a set of relatively complex open source projects and their overarching non-profit foundation. Using this...

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Private Provision of Public Goods that are Complements for Private Goods : Application to Open Source Software Developments

Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

This paper examines the questions of who participates in the provision of a public good through the voluntary participation of agents in the presence of strong complementarity between a public good and a private good. We show that the greater the initial endowment of the private good that agents...

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Private provision of public goods that are complements for private goods : application to open source software developments

Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - 2012

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Linking cyclicality and product quality

Sosa, Manuel; Mihm, Jürgen; Browning, Tyson - 2012 - Rev. vers. of 2012/23/TOM

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Investment incentives in proprietary and open-source two-sided platforms

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Llanes, Gastón - 2012

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Democratizing Innovation

Hippel, Eric von - 2012

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users - both individuals and firms - often freely share their innovations with others, creating...

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CIO Herds and User Gangs in the Adoption of Open Source Software

Sieber, Sandra - 2012

Open Source Software (OSS) has received wide attention from the research community, analyzing both the innovation …

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