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Dual Licensing in Open Source Software Industry
Valimaki, Mikko - 2014
This paper analyses how several open source companies use dual licensing: both open source and proprietary licenses for one product. Three case studies based on the experiences of companies Sleepycat Software Inc., MySQL AB, and TrollTech AS illustrate the issue. Especially the legal and...
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Competition Among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms : The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution
August, Terrence - 2020
and prices are endogenously determined in equilibrium, (ii) how license restrictiveness impacts equilibrium investments … and the quality of offerings, and (iii) how license restrictiveness affects consumer surplus and social welfare. Although … restrictive license instead encourages greater effort from the OSS contributor, leads to higher OSS quality, and provides a larger …
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Open Source, Dual Licensing and Software Competition
Darmon, Eric; Torre, Dominique - 2014
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...
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - 2013
may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … may use more restrictive license terms such as the General Public License to discourage proprietary appropriation of her …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220275
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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007 - This version: 15 October 2007
We examine bidding behaviour of individuals and teams in an experimental auction resembling UMTS-license auctions. Even …
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Individuals and teams in UMTS-license auctions
Sutter, Matthias; Kocher, Martin; Strauß, Sabine - 2007
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An experimental test of design alternatives for the British 3G/UMTS auction
Abbink, Klaus; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Pezanis-Christou, Paul; … - 2001
In spring 2000, the British government auctioned off licences for Third Generation mobile telecommunications services. In the preparation of the auction, two designs involving each a hybrid of an English and a sealed-bid auction were suggested by the government: a discriminatory and a uniform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540075
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The Dutch UMTS-auction
Damme, Eric E. C. van - 2002
In this paper I review the Dutch UMTS-auction that took place in the summer of 2000 and which, in contrast to the UK and German auctions, was generally considered to be a major flop. I analyse the policy process leading to the auction as well as the bidding behaviour in the auction, and provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409958
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A compensation model developed to increase spectrum usage efficiency in the 4G era
Chou, Yuntsai; Hu, Wei-min; Lien, Hsienming - 2015
hoarding the 2600 MHz frequencies. One is neither upgrade to 4G technologies and nor license renewal; the second is the upgrade … allowed but no license renewal; the third is no upgrade but the license renewed; and fourth is both upgrade and renewal are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526332
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Do auctions and forced divestitures increase competition?
Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Haan, Marco; Heijnen, Pim - 2011
Where markets are insufficiently competitive, governments can intervene by auctioninglicenses to operate or by forcing divestitures. The Dutch government has doneexactly that, organizing auctions to redistribute tenancy rights for highway gasolinestations and forcing the divestiture of outlets...
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