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Dual licensing in open source software markets [PDF]

, 2007
Dual licensing has proved to be a sustainable business model for various commercial software vendors employing open source strategies. In this paper we study the main characteristics of dual licensing and under which conditions it represents a profitable
Comino, Stefano, Manenti, Fabio M.
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Formal Assessment of Agreement and Similarity between an Open-Source and a Reference Industrial Device with an Application to a Low-Cost pH Logger

Sensors
Open-source devices are nowadays used in a vast number of research fields like medicine, education, agriculture, and sports, among others. In this work, an open-source, portable, low-cost pH logger, appropriate for in situ measurements, was designed and ...
Evmorfia P. Bataka, Persefoni Maletsika, Christos T. Nakas   +2 more
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Sharing software engineering resources and open source software across entities

, 2011
This paper describes a number of ‘good ideas’ designed to assist staff who are involved in the management, delivery or support of student project work. The ideas were formed from a Disciplinary Commons.
McAndrew, Patrick, Meiszner, Andreas, Wilson, Tina   +2 more
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Open-Source Health Care Software

AMA Journal of Ethics, 2011
Adoption of open-source software for the electronic health record will reduce disparities because it is openly available to all, encourage integration and interoperability between care sites because it is free of proprietary features, and promote innovation because users can contribute to its improvement.
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Competition, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights in Software Markets [PDF]

This paper analyzes when it may be desirable for the government to stimulate open source software as a response to market failures in software markets. Our most important finding is that directly stimulating open source software, e.g. by acting as a lead
Michiel BIJLSMA, Paul W.J. DE BIJL, Viktória KOCSIS   +2 more
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From Open Source Software to Open Source Hardware [PDF]

, 2012
The open source software principles progressively give rise to new initiatives for culture (free culture), data (open data) or hardware (open hardware). The open hardware is experiencing a significant growth but the business models and legal aspects are not well known. This paper is dedicated to the economics of open hardware.
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Open Source Business Solutions [PDF]

This analyses the Open source movement. Open source development process and management is seen different from the classical point of view. This focuses on characteristics and software market tendencies for the main Open source initiatives. It also points
Ion IVAN, Radu BUCEA-MANEA-TONIS
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Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm [PDF]

Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different types
Stephen M. Maurer, Suzanne Scotchmer
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On Platforms, Incomplete Contracts, and Open Source Software [PDF]

We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform. The specific knowledge of another firm B is needed to make the platform successful by creating a further application.
Andras Niedermayer
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Open source software development for neuroinformatics

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2008
Rolf Kötter, Robert C Cannon
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