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Firms on SourceForge
Eilhard, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
source projects. Increasing firms’ participation in the development of open source software (OSS) is generally perceived as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837361
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497690
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Deadly Contests An economic note on al Qaeda’s reward system
Caruso, Raul; Locatelli, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The aim of this brief paper is to interpret al Qaeda’s modus operandi in the light of the economic theory of contests. The main idea expressed here is that al Qaeda can be considered as a contest-designer rewarding an indivisible prize. Affiliated groups compete with each other to win the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836997
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A Model of corporate donations to open source under hardware–software complementarity
Di Gaetano, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
scholars on the topic. Open source software (OSS) is developed by communities of programmers and users, usually sponsored by … source software (CSS) competition will be presented. Hardware and software are complement goods and OSS is financed by … hardware firms. There is a differentiated oligopoly of hardware–software bundles, in which firms compete in prices. Results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259457
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Modelos open source y responsabilidad social
García-García, Jesús; Magdaleno, Alonso de; Isabel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
quickly. The objective of our research is to identify indicators in order to measure OSD performance in ICT sector. Motivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369616
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The creation of internet communities: A brief history of on-line distribution of working papers through NEP, 1998-2010
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Krichel, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper adds to the growing literature on the formation of online communities from an historical perspective by telling of the emergence and development of a service for speedy, online distribution of recent additions to the broad literatures on economics and related areas called NEP: New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756315
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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746188
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Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi Ville; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model … where users participate in software development. I show that the OS model of production may be more efficient from the point …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497689
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Show me the code: Spatial analysis and open source
Rey, S.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper considers the intersection of academic spatial analysis with the open source revolution. Its basic premise is that the potential for cross-fertilization between the two is rich, yet some misperceptions about these two communities pose challenges to realizing these opportunities. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617027