Pricing practices occur in the software market. The software market is a new market that differs from traditional markets in … Pricing in the software market. Traditional regulation is not well suited to regulating software Discriminatory Pricing …. Software Discriminatory Pricing is a commonly used marketing strategy and should not be subject to restrictions by competition …

. In 1966, a Presidential Commission recommended prohibiting software patents because of the PTO s inability to vet them … historic moment, what can the past teach the present and the future about how to solve the software patent crisis? Based on my …

Today's internet presumes that individuals use software to make their own decisions to regulate spam, security … poor and poorly educated. Many have argued that software is a powerful form of regulation (e.g., Lessig, 2000) and that … defaults in software regulate behavior, but empirical studies have been scarce. To empirically address the question of how …

Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in the software industry than in …. While there is some truth to each of these criticisms, the real problem with software patents lies elsewhere. Software … implemented. Most software patents today are written in functional terms. If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting …

Software patents have received a great deal of attention in the academic literature. Unfortunately, most of that … attention has been devoted to the problem of whether software is or should be patentable subject matter. With roughly 40 …,000 software patents already issued, and the Federal Circuit endorsing patentability without qualification, those questions are for …

Collaboration between organizations raises significant knowledge management issues, especially in software development …

brand perception etc). In this research paper, a hybrid approach has been proposed through which the CRM software package … approach uses plug-in program instrumentation to optimize a CRM software package at run time without altering or stopping the …

Given the increasing competition in the software industry and the critical consequences of software errors, it has … become important to develop methods for early forecasting of software quality. This research utilized a novel forecasting … market for software quality, individual estimates from diverse project stakeholders such as project managers, developers …

TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented … over 225,,000 developers who compete to write software modules for its over 40 clients. Provides details of a unique … innovation platform where complex software is developed through ongoing online competitions. By outlining the company's evolution …