This document seeks to lay the groundwork for a government policy on free and open source software. We briefly characterize the extent of the open source software phenomenon. We analyse its pros and cons for the government, in its role as both an engine of economic development and a large user...

Introduction and Motivation -- Underlying Technologies and Related Works -- A Hierarchical-Packaging-aware Discovery Service -- A Recursive Search Algorithm -- A Filter Algorithm to Extract the Relevant Read Events -- System Design and Implementation Considerations -- Evaluation -- Conclusion...

The econometricians and the economic modelers have to know and use numerical analysis not only to have a good understanding of their results, but sometimes to built their own tools. The increasing tendency to the use of large-scale models leads the softwares to reach the limit of the saturation...

Because the demand for OS is a derived demand revealed through the demand for PCs and because its elasticity is relatively small, the profit-maximizing price of DOS/WIN that would result from a static equilibrium is much higher than the observed price. We investigate this assertion empirically...