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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - 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/10015219784
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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software
Gaudeul, Alexia - 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/10015219751
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Firms on SourceForge
Eilhard, Jan - 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/10015255495
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Needs, Modes and Efficiency of Economic Organizations and Public Interventions in Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2010
There has been a fundamental development in theory and understanding of market, private, collective and public organizations in recent years. This paper incorporates achievements of the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223744
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Public Private Partnerships: The Swiss Specificity
Athias, Laure; Macina, Moudo; Wicht, Pascal - 2017
While most countries have adopted public private partnerships, the prevalence of such arrangements differs widely across countries and the differences have been persistent. In particular, while around 700 PPP projects have been launched in the United Kingdom between 1994 and 2011, Switzerland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258990
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Public Private Partnerships: The Swiss Specificity
Athias, Laure; Macina, Moudo; Wicht, Pascal - 2017
While most countries have adopted public private partnerships, the prevalence of such arrangements differs widely across countries and the differences have been persistent. In particular, while around 700 PPP projects have been launched in the United Kingdom between 1994 and 2011, Switzerland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015259367
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Public Private Partnerships: The Swiss Specificity
Athias, Laure; Macina, Moudo; Wicht, Pascal - 2017
While most countries have adopted public private partnerships, the prevalence of such arrangements differs widely across countries and the differences have been persistent. In particular, while around 722 PPP projects have been launched in the United Kingdom between 1994 and 2016, Switzerland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015259368
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A Contribution to the Understanding of Illegal Copying of Software: Empirical and Analytical Evidence Against Conventional Wisdom
Osorio, Carlos A. - 2002
This paper analyzes the causes of illegal copying and its effects in the software market across 66countries. By … studying the aggregated and joint effects of different variables, the analysis shows thatsupply constraints in the software … which its aggregated effect onthe software market is positive, and this is an efficient mechanism for market creation. Thus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432832
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Network effects, compatibility, and adoption of standards
Grajek, Michał - 2005
approach we follow allows us to identify the extent of network effects and compatibility between competing networks. To the …. At the same time, it is the first attempt to assess the degree of compatibility in an econometric framework. The model is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467122
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RATIONAL INCOMPATIBILITY WITH INTERNATIONAL PRODUCT STANDARDS
Barrett, Christopher B.; Yang, Yi-Nung - 1999
This paper considers the incentives of firms to conform to an exogenous international product standard. Product standardization enables traditional, price-based international competition. But the existence of redesign costs or network effects creates market frictions that diminish the incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444423