A central tenet of the open source software development methodology is that the community of users and developers is … instrumental in improving the quality of software. I conceptualize open source communities as information repositories to … understand how community members help in improving software quality. The information repository contains the accumulated …

two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model … where users participate in software development. I show that the OS model of production may be more efficient from the point …

This paper tries to explore the mechanism of the choices of Open Source Software (OSS) Licenses. The benignant licensor …

This research-in-progress aims to indentify the salient factors explaining adoption of open source software (OSS), as a …

-source software (OSS). We distinguish between internal contributors affiliated with target firms and external contributors from the …

The paper discusses three key economic problems raised by the emergence and diffusion of Open source software … software development community that deliberately did not follow profit motivations. Second, a hierarchical coordination emerged …

This paper reviews the recent literature on the economics of open source software. Two different sets of issues are …

This paper analyzes free software under the light of commons theories, and tries to answer whether it is a managed or … struggles. Then, it proposes a two-tier structure for analyzing free software as a commons, considering its dual nature as … commons theory categories; Android and software forking are explored as examples. It concludes that the first layer resembles …