The paper analyzes the strategies of software firms that have entered the open source (OS)
field. The notion of the OS business model is discussed in the light of a substantial body of …

Our study aims at shedding light on the innovative business strategies in the software sector
and understanding better the economics that underlies the supply of Open Source Software …

Open-source software (OSS) programs (eg LINUX, Apache) provide access to the source
code to any interested party. This leads to a distributed innovation model where users …

Large quantities of software, ranging from operating systems to web servers to games, are
now available as “open source software” or “free software”. In many cases, this software is …

The first urgent question for any scholar willing to study the Open Source (OS) movement
has been clearly put by Glass (1999, 104): I don't know who these crazy people are who …

The business of open source Page 1 The Business of OPEN SOURCE n his discourse
comparing various economic systems, Schumpeter [5] declares it is new products, new …

The paper analyses the birth of the encryption software industry (ESI), a new niche in the
software industry. Using a Chandlerian perspective, this work reports the main facts about …

The phenomenon of open source software (OSS) has been well studied from the software
development perspective, but it has received much less attention from the perspective of …

The open source approach to software development has been used by software
organizations in tandem with their existing business models, which are based on proprietary …

The link between firms engaging in open source software (OSS) development and the OSS
community is established by individual developers. This linkage might entail a principal …