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

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open …-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically … contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the nature of competition between OSS constituents and proprietary software …

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …

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 …

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …

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 …

We 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 …