Software market is considered as a new object for the mathematical economics. A statistical study of the server … operating systems market is provided, static and dynamic models of for-profit and non-for-profit software developers mixed … duopoly are built (taking into account market growth, interactions with hardware vendors, software piracy, and non …

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

Software market is considered as a new object for the mathematical economics. A statistical study of the server … operating systems market is provided, static and dynamic models of for-profit and non-for-profit software developers mixed … duopoly are built (taking into account market growth, interactions with hardware vendors, software piracy, and non …

This paper presents the stylized facts of open source software innovation and provides empirical evidence on the impact … of increased competition by OSS on the innovative activity in the software industry. Furthermore, we introduce a simple … duopoly under the assumption that software producers compete in technology rather than price or quantities. The paper …

e 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 …

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 …

The pervasiveness of the illegal copying of software is a worldwide phenomenon. Software piracy implies a huge loss of … potential customers of original software buyers, which directly translates into revenue losses for the software industry. Given … this, conventional wisdom would suggest the need for the legal software firms and governments to take a harsh approach on …

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

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 …