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 …

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

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 …

use of their software by others and must therefore consider non-developers' needs to make their software more attractive …

This paper traces the history of the development and use of the Open Source TeX typesetting program. This software was … development of each type of software evolved in a symbiotic way. The strengths and weaknesses of both development methods were …

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 …