This article reviews the changes to the established software industry caused by the rise of the Internet. Before the …-market software products for PCs; vendors of enterprise software products for business administration and corporate computing … other firms, while enterprise and mass-market software vendors made products for distinct computing environments - powerful …

Free/Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) diffusion represents one of the main evolutions of the Information Technology … thus starting from the basic conditions of the computer market and of the buyers' competence in software development (the …

Software patents have been controversial since the days when "software" referred to the crude programs that came free … during this time. Meanwhile, a software industry developed and has grown to a remarkable size, whether measured by revenues … or profitability, number of firms or employees, or research expenditures. The scope of software innovation has become …

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software … developing a growth optimal mixture of open source and closed source software. This optimal scenario is then used as a basis to … examine the co-existence of open and closed source software within various institutional frameworks ranging from no protection …