In recent years, the success of open source software (OSS) has attracted proprietary software firms, who now actively participate, and sponsor OSS development. Though researchers agree that for the progress of OSS projects, financial support, rewards, and incentives are critical if not...

Recent years have witnessed a continuous erosion of the Microsoft Internet Explorer share in the web browser market, mainly induced by the continuous gains of Mozilla Firefox, an open source software product. This tendency would seem to contradict the well-established belief that in a standards...

By an example of the Linux system, I introduce a concept of the Virtual Production Line (VPL) as an extension of an assembly line, brought in by Henry Ford in motor industry a hundred years ago, and demonstrate its usefulness in an analysis of open source software development. The line is...

This data documentation introduces to nodal dispatch models and the literature of the ELMOD model framework, which focuses on bottom-up electricity sector models with detailed spatial representation of the transmission system. The paper provides the technical description of ELMOD-DE, a nodal DC...

The remarkable success of open source software applications, such as the Mozilla web browser and the Apache server, which have surpassed the success of most of their commercial counterparts (Mockus et al. 2002), can be attributed, to a large part, to the knowledge collaboration (Faraj et al....

The Hungárián Copyright Act (HCA) includes a separate chapter on the terms of license (“use”) contracts. The provisions of the HCA serve as lex speciális against the background of general and special rules of contract law codified by the Hungarian Civil Code (HCC). From a historical point...