...and public ownership of standards; Europe and China used standards to erect trade barriers; and royalty-free policies proliferated – to name just a few of the standards trends of 2003....
...realization of trade promotion and liberalization in the Western Hemisphere. As such, it complements the work ongoing within the World Trade Organization through its Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade....
...or searched, and over 200,000 can be downloaded in full text. This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc....
...patents in the process of producing Web standards. The goal of this policy is to assure that Recommendations produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis....
Although a growing body of literature is analysing Open Source software (OSS) issues, there is still lack of empirical data on the phenomenon and little is known about firms that...
...develop and test two extensions of the earlier model: the presence of provisions mandating royalty-free licensing is negatively associated with disclosure requirements, and when there are only a limited number...
...codes and by the subsequent development of dedicated communities, is a key feature which, together with compatibility, can allow open-source software to overcome existing proprietary standards. This result depends on...
The article presents an economic analysis of Libre software and of its sustainability as an economic model. We underline the role of Libre software development communities and analyze incentives of...
...interest and policy. It concludes that one is led to prefer GPL copylefting licensing especially for any libre software component whose development is publicly funded, and when it is providing...
...established a foundation, the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI elaborated the Open Source Definition that marshals the guidelines to define exactly whether a program is Open Source or not....