Economic Model for Impact of Open Source Software Export

@misc{citeulike:1705289, abstract = {this paper, we assume that open-source generates a software product of same quality to that provided by proprietary development. One of the questions initially raised still holds, however. Namely, whether a software company can survive in the face of competitition from comparable open-source software, which literally gives its product away. Are such companies doomed from the outset? Facing a \"new\" opensource competitor, would a company be advised to exit the market to avoid losses? The economic ...}, author = {Khalak, Asif}, citeulike-article-id = {1705289}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/401671.html}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://citeseer.lcs.mit.edu/401671.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://citeseer.ifi.unizh.ch/401671.html}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://citeseer.comp.nus.edu.sg/401671.html}, keywords = {commercial, companies, economics, floss, industry, product, productization}, posted-at = {2007-09-28 16:30:37}, priority = {2}, title = {Economic Model for Impact of Open Source Software}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/401671.html} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:1705289 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1705289 N2 - this paper, we assume that open-source generates a software product of same quality to that provided by proprietary development. One of the questions initially raised still holds, however. Namely, whether a software company can survive in the face of competitition from comparable open-source software, which literally gives its product away. Are such companies doomed from the outset? Facing a "new" opensource competitor, would a company be advised to exit the market to avoid losses? The economic ... TI - Economic Model for Impact of Open Source Software KW - commercial KW - companies KW - economics KW - floss KW - industry KW - product KW - productization AU - Khalak, Asif UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/401671.html ER -