expansión tecnológica. Se discute el papel del software libre y cómo los nuevos enfoques para el desarrollo de software pueden … shaping the objectives and goals for IT expansion. We discuss the role of open source software and how new approaches for … software development can turn the ambitious aims into reality …

A large number of studies has been canvassed by the growing rates of diffusion of Open Source Software. However, a … formal analysis of the process of competition between open–source and proprietary software is still missing. We propose an … epidemic model of innovation diffusion to deal with the different factors (profits for proprietary software and developers …

complementary public good like open source software. We show that, contrary to standard predictions, additional contribution to the …

In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … technological levels. An OS firm is a for profit organization whose basic software is OS and it is distributed for free. The OS firm …, however, is able to make profits from selling complementary software and, on the cost side, it receives development help from …

This paper studies pricing strategies for a commercial software provider who faces competition from both a free …-of-charge open-source software substitute and illegal copies of its own product. When network externalities are present, the … commercial software provider may choose to set a price sufficiently low such that a critical mass of users is not attainable for …

This paper analyzes the competitive strategy of proprietary software (PS) firm in the presence of open-source software … (OSS) where the copyright holder has granted software users access and use of OSS without any obligation regarding source … can provide OSS quality upgrades. We find that both types of software can coexist in equilibrium. Furthermore, despite the …

The rapid emergence of open source software has generated significant debate over its effect on software innovation …. The goal of this paper is to explore the impact of open source software innovation on a mixed market also containing … proprietary software, and to compare this market with a pure market in which only proprietary software firms exist. Building upon …

employing firms too if they get some strategic value from the open source software and/ or if the productivity of the …