The open source software development model has been hailed as the most significant change in computing since Apple … economy have had a rough time finding ways to stay afloat financially. While traditional software companies can generate … revenue from the sale of their intellectual property, this is hard to do with open source software because the developers …

In the wake of a series of court cases extending patents to software, open-source software proponents have proposed a … number of arguments for limiting or even eliminating software patents. In particular, they claim that the U.S. Patent and … Trademark Office has done a poor job of reviewing software patent applications, resulting in obvious, trivial patents. They also …

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 …

software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for …

Some free or open source software infects other software with its licensing terms. Popularly, this is called a viral … license, but the software is not a computer virus. Free or open source software is a copyright based licensing system. It … strong scope for the modifications provision. The scope arises from a broad conception of software derivative works. A strong …

This Article analyzes legal protection for open-source software by comparing it to the venerable civil law tradition of … software use be royalty free. These conditions facilitate open-source collaborative software development. At the heart of both … Collaborative Integrity of open-source software. The history and legacy of moral rights help us better understand Collaborative …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

Open source software is emerging as a potentially important competitive force in the software industry, capturing the … attention of venture capitalists and computing industry executives. Yet very little is known about how open source software …, which is created collectively by individual volunteers, will compete with closed source software. This paper models open …

Open Source software, developed by a community of mostly volunteers programmers and available on the web free of charge …, offers important opportunities to software firms. The availability of such free productive factor, in fact, cuts the … source software depends mostly on some features of the incumbents' business models. In details, the probability to carry out …