for consumer is close to zero in software market since consumers may download a freeware or trial version of the focal … product easily through the internet. Unlike other consumable goods, sampling is an inexpensive strategy to software vendors …. Hence, it is common practice in software markets. This research builds a multilevel model to illustrate categorical …

interoperability challenges posed by programs, but then copyright became the norm for software protection. Whelan made it seem that … expectations. Software developers then shifted to patent protection for interfaces, as well as pinning their hopes on the … enforceability of anti-reverse engineering clauses in software license contracts. Recent developments give hint of a new shift toward …

such resource is free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS). FLOSS emerged as an alternative to proprietary software in … production. For example, Red Hat, Inc. is a large publicly traded company whose business model relies entirely on free software …