The economics of technology sharing
Subtitle: open source and beyond
By: Josh Lerner, Jean Tirole.
Contributors: Tirole, Jean.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10956; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10956.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Open source software -- Economic aspects.
Description: "This paper reviews our understanding of the growing open source movement.  We highlight how many aspects of open source software appear initially puzzling to an economist.  As we have acknowledge, our ability to answer confidently many of the issues raised here questions is likely to increase as the open source movement itself grows and evolves.  At the same time, it is heartening to us how much of open source activities can be understood within existing economic frameworks, despite the presence of claims to the contrary.  The labor and industrial organization literatures provide lenses through which the structure of open source projects, the role of contributors, and the movement's ongoing evolution can be viewed"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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