This paper examines the open source and free software movements, and the adaptation of these principles in the context …

This paper studies the impact of software piracy on prominent and non-prominent software developers in markets based on … prominent software into account. We show that prominent software exhibits higher piracy rates than non-prominent software …. However, contrary to intuition, this does not necessarily mean that prominent software developers benefit more from increased …

This Article analyzes legal protection for open-source software by comparing it to the venerable civil law tradition of … software use be royalty free. These conditions facilitate open-source collaborative software development. At the heart of both … Collaborative Integrity of open-source software. The history and legacy of moral rights help us better understand Collaborative …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

product development of free and open source hardware and software, there is an urgent need to refurbish the instruments of …

Open source software (OSS) is playing an increasing role in information and communication technology (ICT) standards … for software in standard specifications of the three SDOs (ITU, ETSI, and IEEE), show gaps in avoiding tensions in their …

comprehensive dataset of three million street-level geocoded firm observations to explore the location pattern of software firms in … an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). Based on the ESDA results, we develop a software firm location prediction …