Licensing Schemes in the Production and Distribution of Open Source Software: An Empirical Investigation
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Summary
The license choice of the firms that supply Open Source products and services is examined and it is related to their structural characteristics, business models and attitudes towards the movement and its community.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2003-09-09
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 77
- Access
- Open access
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Keywords
Open source software, Production (economics), Distribution (mathematics), Computer science, Software
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- Open Source Business Model Balancing Customers and Community
- Tapping into the source: corporate involvement in open source software. (L'implication des entreprises aux logiciels libres)
- A Look Inside the Forge: Developer Productivity and Spillovers in Open Source Projects
- Open Source: Concepts, Benefits, and Challenges
- Open Source Vendors’ Business Models
- Private-Collective Software Business Models: Coordination and Commercialization Via Licensing
- From Planning to Mature: On the Determinants of Open Source Take-Off
- Licensing and Business Models
- Free & open source software creation and ‘the economy of regard'
- A Brief Survey of the Economics of Open Source Software
- Explaining Open Source:
- Hierarchy, Laboratory and Collective: Unveiling Linux as Innovation, Machination and Constitution
- The Determinants of Open Source Quality: An Empirical Investigation
- Balancing Requirements of Decision and Action: Decision-Making and Implementation in Free/Open Source Software Projects
- From planning to mature: On the success of open source projects
- Open source software: Motivation and restrictive licensing
- Applying open innovation in business strategies: Evidence from Finnish software firms
- Dual licensing in open source software markets
- Innovative software business strategies: Evidence from finnish firms
- High Dimensional American Options
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