IS THE GENERAL PUBLIC LICENCE A RATIONAL CHOICE?

IS THE GENERAL PUBLIC LICENCE A RATIONAL CHOICE?

Open source projects are networks of developers, distributors and end-users of non-proprietary created knowledge goods. It has been argued that this form of organization has some advantages over the firm or market coordination. I show that for sufficiently convex and modular projects, proprietary li...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of industrial economics 2007-12, Vol.55 (4), p.691-714
1. Verfasser: POLANSKI, ARNOLD
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Capital costs
Computer software
Consumer economics
Coordination
Economic costs
Industrial economics
Knowledge
Licenses
Open source software
Publishing industry
Rational choice theory
Renewable energy
Studies
Surplus
Sustainable economies
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Zusammenfassung:Open source projects are networks of developers, distributors and end-users of non-proprietary created knowledge goods. It has been argued that this form of organization has some advantages over the firm or market coordination. I show that for sufficiently convex and modular projects, proprietary licences are not able to sustain sequential knowledge production which, however, can be carried out if the project is run on the open source basis.
ISSN:0022-1821
1467-6451
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6451.2007.00326.x