Title
Linux Adoption in the Public Sector: An Economic Analysis
Author
Hal R. Varian, and Carl Shapiro
Date
1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 12/1/2003)
(Original Publish Date: 12/1/2003)
Abstract
While focused on Linux, our discussion necessarily ranges more broadly into the economics of software markets and the differences between the traditional model of development of commercial software and the open source software model used by Linux, Apache, and other popular open source software.