In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also …

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative … institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative … institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not … software must make complementary investments, when the return on such investments depends on future cooperation of the software …

Piracy is commonly considered to be detrimental to the software industry. The industry has taken aggressive steps to … profit in markets with large variations in consumer price sensitivity. Using software sales and piracy data from 50 countries … between 1996 and 2002, we find that anti-piracy effort has indeed hurt the software industry in such markets …

This paper analyzes the structural dimension of social capital, and its impact on the success of open source software … social capital, contributes to open source software projects’ competitive advantages …

This article contributes to research on the geographic origin of open source software (OSS) developers by analyzing the …