The Economics of Open Source Software for a Competitive Firm - Why give it away for free? Export

@misc{citeulike:1705295, abstract = {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 backed by large profit seeking corporations such as IBM. Traditional economic analysis is used to identify the costs and benefits to firms of using open source rather than proprietary solutions, particularly in the case of the firm releasing code to the world when not obliged to do so. Examples of large companies...}, author = {Hawkins, Richard E.}, citeulike-article-id = {1705295}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.13.5434}, keywords = {economics, floss}, posted-at = {2007-09-28 16:31:30}, priority = {2}, title = {The Economics of Open Source Software for a Competitive Firm - Why give it away for free?}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.13.5434} }

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