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

Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if … and wait for others to develop the software instead. This problem is modelled as a war of attrition with complete … feature any delay: software will be provided swiftly, by young, low-cost individuals who gain considerably by signaling their …

the framework of a dynamic duopolistic competition, with firms controlling their investments in software …

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. -- Platforms …

Open source software (OSS) development teams use informal communication to coordinate their work towards common goals …. According to software engineering folklore, the architecture and the organization of the final product depend on the …

We develop a vertical differentiation game-theoretic model that addresses the issue of designing free software samples … may ensue. We analyze the optimal design of free software according to two characteristics: the evaluation period allotted … for sampling (potentially renewable) and the proportion of features included in the sample. We introduce a new software …