software industry, more digital by its nature, it is nowadays the standard to use version control systems such as git, with …, software, music, news, and videos (Waldfogel, 2017; Wu and Zhu, 2022). Three of the top 10 of the global 2000 list by Forbes in …

This research-in-progress aims to indentify the salient factors explaining adoption of open source software (OSS), as a …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side, it receives development help from …

The rapid emergence of open source software has generated significant debate over its effect on software innovation …. The goal of this paper is to explore the impact of open source software innovation on a mixed market also containing … proprietary software, and to compare this market with a pure market in which only proprietary software firms exist. Building upon …