Incentives to develop software:
Incentives to develop software Source: Software & Information Industry Association
Competition from OSS is Valuable:
Competition from OSS is Valuable Open Mozilla model easy for 3rd party dvprs to upgrade
Innovation in IE stopped with IE 4 “Auto-image resizing: It’s a feature not a bug, really.” Source: Salon 9/10 2002 “Mozilla Rising”
Farhad Manjoo
What do we protect?:
What do we protect? Look & Feel Copyright Function Patent
OSS Classification:
OSS Classification Source: Vinod Valloppillil / The Halloween Document
Most licenses are corner solutions:
Most licenses are corner solutions Let [0,1] be the measure of openness.
Let t[0,1] be the time to release derivative works.
t Proprietary 1 0 0 1
Consider profits in two markets:
Price Quantity Price Quantity Market One
(Acrobat Reader) Market Two
(Acrobat Distiller) Initially, there are profits to be made in both markets. q1 q2 p1 p2 Consider profits in two markets
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Price Price Market One
(Acrobat Reader) Market Two
(Acrobat Distiller) Initially, there are profits to be made in both markets. But subsidizing market one with a free good can
increase demand and profits in market two
more than the loss in market one. Quantity Quantity q1 q2 p1 p2 Consider profits in two markets
Slide9:
http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=249585