Open source software (OSS) development teams use informal communication to coordinate their work towards common goals …. According to software engineering folklore, the architecture and the organization of the final product depend on the …

We develop a vertical differentiation game-theoretic model that addresses the issue of designing free software samples … may ensue. We analyze the optimal design of free software according to two characteristics: the evaluation period allotted … for sampling (potentially renewable) and the proportion of features included in the sample. We introduce a new software …

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

The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users … may choose liberal license terms such as those of the Berkeley Software Distribution as proprietary developers will then … find it easier to adopt her standard in their products. If she wants to promote the use of open source software per se, she …

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 …

Despite the availability of source code, deploying open source software (OSS) in an enterprise environment requires … studies how users' skills and network effects may influence the market where proprietary software (PS) competes with OSS. In … the model, users make adoption decisions considering their own skills and the network effects of the software, and the …

Globally, the rapid rise of Open Source Software (OSS) development has drawn the intense attention of the public sector … systems are equally suitable, governments may reasonably choose OSS over proprietary software because software industry market … significant switching costs and incompatibility problems, OSS is actually superior to proprietary software because it increases …

This papers sheds light on the puzzling evidence that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is … in the wider OSS literature and contribute new insights to the economic analysis. -- open source software ; public goods …