We analyze the impact of institutional and cultural factors on the supply side of open source software (OSS). OSS is a … privately provided public good: it is marked by free access to the software and its source code, and is developed in a public …

Free, libre or open source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in a … FLOSS is often a complement to proprietary software (or hardware or services) that the for-profit firm sells at a positive … price. We present an alternative explanation based the users' skill level. When users are skilled, opening the software is …

The aim of this paper is to focus on the emerging situation in which open source software is nowadays produced not only …

Open source and proprietary software firms are no longer polar opposites on the business landscape. In the decade in … which open source software has become a practical alternative to proprietary products, there has been a so-called move to … have resorted to traditional methods of generating revenues from free software. Further, in many important areas the two …

The computer-services and software industry used to be conveniently divided into three main sectors: mass …-market software vendors, enterprise software vendors, and computer services. The three sectors were distinct, because personal … effectively connected everything, facilitating the entry of mass-market vendors into enterprise software and of both mass …

So-called open source software (OSS) is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright-based OSS … licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a public …

Stallman proposed a revolutionary idea in 1984 with the "Free Software Foundation", subsequently confirmed in 1998 in … individual developers and neglect firms that do business with Open Source software (OSS). During 2002, we conducted a large …

Free and open source software (FOSS) is a movement continually gathering accolades as a non-market based system of … hybrid approaches to software development and appropriating value from the resulting code. FOSS licensing harnesses the … new software and a new development methodology. Source code availability, an enforced feature of one major type of FOSS …

of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright …-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a …