Source Software (FOSS). The question is whether open innovation communities might enjoy a better future with the dedication …

This dissertation investigates how IPR enforcement by proprietary incumbents influences open source software (OSS … related to a software segment will facilitate OSS start-up entry into the same segment; this marginal effect is especially …

This paper studies the contributions to Open Source projects of software firms. Our goal is to analyse whether they … business with Open Source software. We follow a meta-analytic approach comparing our findings with the results of the surveys … conducted on Free Software programmers. Moreover, the availability of the data gathered by Hertel et al. (2003) on 141 …

FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) has taken the world by storm in the last decade. The emergence of FLOSS has … that will enable the Indian Software Services Companies to truly leverage FLOSS while moving forward …

Open source software projects rely on the voluntary efforts of thousands of software developers, yet we know little … framework for understanding participation from the perspective of the individual software developer based on data from two … software communities with different governance structures. In both communities, a need for software-related improvements drives …

and downstream, in the software and the hardware dimensions, to explain the rate of product introduction in open source … software (OSS). Using a selfassembled database of firms that announced releases of OSS products between 1995 and 2003, we find … that the rate of product introduction can be explained by a strong position in software technology and downstream market …

. However, most empirical analyses focus on individual developers and neglect firms that do business with Open Source software …

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