We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative … institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …

of the public knowledge good (science or research software or database) is sub-optimal. Then we demonstrate that if "lead … the General Public License (GPL) used in the provision of open source software is one of such mechanisms. Our results are … then applied to the specific setting where the knowledge being produced is software or a database that will be used by …

Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other … types of inefficiencies and different biases in R&D investment. Open source style of software development remedies a defect …

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …

to open source software, an unpriced commodity in the digital economy. The study is the first to follow usage and … upgrading of unpriced software over a long period of time. It finds evidence that software updates mislead analyses of sources … software. We analyze the largest dataset ever compiled on web server use in the United States and link it to disaggregated …

We present PublicationHarvester, an open-source software tool for gathering publication information on individual life … scientists. The software interfaces with MEDLINE, and allows the end-user to specify up to four MEDLINE-formatted names for each …/editorials, etc.) The software also generates a keywords report at the scientist-year level, using the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH …