For several years, an increasing number of firms are investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in …

For several years, an increasing number of ¯rms are investing in Open Source Software (OSS). While improvements in such …

Das Papier charakterisiert die spezifischen Eigenschaften des Gutes Software. Als Alternative zur Bereitstellung von … Software über Märkte werden die Charakteristika der "freien" Open-Source-Softwareentwicklung dargestellt, bei der die … Konsumentenpräferenzen aufweist. Das Papier ist gleichzeitig ein kritischer Kommentar zur Open-Source-Software-Studie von Kalwey u.a. (2003). …

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 …

complementary public good like open source software. We show that, contrary to standard predictions, additional contribution to the …

We analyze investment incentives for a firm A owning a software platform and an application and a firm B deciding …

Software market is considered as a new object for the mathematical economics. A statistical study of the server … operating systems market is provided, static and dynamic models of for-profit and non-for-profit software developers mixed … duopoly are built (taking into account market growth, interactions with hardware vendors, software piracy, and non …

This paper presents the stylized facts of open source software innovation and provides empirical evidence on the impact … of increased competition by OSS on the innovative activity in the software industry. Furthermore, we introduce a simple … duopoly under the assumption that software producers compete in technology rather than price or quantities. The paper …

e use a Hotelling linear city model to study competition between open source and proprietary software, where only the … producer of the proprietary software aims at maximizing the profit. The producer of the proprietary software must decide on … for the producer of the proprietary software. We found that the proprietary producer¡¯s choice of compatibility strategy …