To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

Firms have the choice of developing software as either open source or closed source. The open-source approach to … software development has been advocated as a new and better method for developing high quality software than the traditional … closed-source approach. In open source, volunteer programmers freely contribute code to develop and improve the software …

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover … decisions that can provide empirical estimates of relative importance within a single unified framework. -- Software ; open …

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 …

modelling process. Although several commercial software companies offer specific solutions for modelling credit scorecards, open …