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 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 …

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

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

We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform … against expropriation of rents. The different pieces of software are considered as assets in the sense of the property rights … firms invest in physical (and not in human) capital and that there is non-rivalry in consumption for software. …