Open Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods Export

@misc{citeulike:1705248, abstract = {Open source software, developed by volunteers, appears counter to conventional wisdom about private provision of public goods. Standard theory holds that without property rights (or excludability), free-riding inhibits private investment in non-rival goods such as information and software. But complex open source products challenge commercially-developed software in quality and market share. I argue that the complexity of software changes the results. For complex goods under asymmetric...}, author = {Bessen, James}, citeulike-article-id = {1705248}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.4994}, keywords = {floss, product}, posted-at = {2007-09-28 16:17:56}, priority = {2}, title = {Open Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.4994}, year = {2002} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:1705248 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1705248 N2 - Open source software, developed by volunteers, appears counter to conventional wisdom about private provision of public goods. Standard theory holds that without property rights (or excludability), free-riding inhibits private investment in non-rival goods such as information and software. But complex open source products challenge commercially-developed software in quality and market share. I argue that the complexity of software changes the results. For complex goods under asymmetric... TI - Open Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goods KW - floss KW - product AU - Bessen, James PY - 2002/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.4994 ER -