We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services … three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open … situations: monopoly, commercial firm vs. non-profit open source project, and duopoly. We show that: (i) firms may become "more …

The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all … interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process: open source software development is done … by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data from Sourceforge.net, the largest repository of Open Source …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side, it receives development help from …

Understanding the process of software adoption is of paramount importance to software start-ups. We study a …