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Government policies supporting open source software for the Mass market

Comino, Stefano; Manenti, Fabio M. - In: Review of industrial organization : RIO 26 (2005) 2, pp. 217-240

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Network externalities, incumbent's competitive advantage and the degree of openness of software start-ups

Colombo, Stefano; Grilli, Luca; Rossi-Lamastra, Cristina - In: Computational economics 44 (2014) 2, pp. 175-200

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On the dynamics of competition between commercial and free software

Christiaans, Thomas - In: Studies in microeconomics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 37-58

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Publicationharvester : an open-source software tool for policy research

Azoulay, Pierre; Stellman, Andrew; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2006

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PublicationHarvester: an open-source software tool for science policy research

Azoulay, Pierre; Stellman, Andrew; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 35 (2006) 7, pp. 970-974

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Public subsidies for open source? : Some economc policy issues of the software market

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2003

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Public Subsidies for Open Source? Some Economic Policy Issues of the Software Market

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2015

This paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software … differences between proprietary software and open source software with respect to these market features and ask whether open … source as an alternative to proprietary software can mitigate these problems. Then we discuss the implications of various …

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Can open sourcing lead to inferior standards?

Koerselman, Kristian - 2008

I investigate the effect of open source on standardization outcomes in a market with positive network externalities. In a closed source world, it seems reasonable to assume that the probability of a standard being chosen is positively correlated with its quality. Open source may weaken or invert...

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Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms, and the implications for the software industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

Technology platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, are the hubs of technology industries. We develop a framework to characterize the optimal two-sided pricing strategy of a platform firm, that is, the pricing strategy towards the direct users of the platform as well as towards firms offering...

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Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms and the implications for the software industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

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