Open Source developers have, perhaps without conscious intent, created a new and surprisingly successful economic paradigm for the production of software. Examining that paradigm can answer a number of important...
...likely than an early entrant to make her product compatible with that of the proprietary developer, but she is also more likely to orient her software towards the end user....
This paper discusses the economic merits of direct or indirect governmental support for open source projects. Software markets differ from standard textbook markets in three important respects that may give...
How important are standards in the world of information and communications technology? On a scale of \”not important\” to \”damn important,\” I would cast my vote to place them at...
Open source software projects, much in the news lately, are exciting examples of complete innovation development and consumption communities run by and for users, no manufacturer required. User innovation communities...
...mechanisms by which the different participants in a market communicate, coordinate, and cooperate. The word has a number of meanings — units of weights and measures are standards, for example...
FIPA-OS (FIPA Open Source) is an open agent platform originating from Nortel Networks. The platform supports communication between multiple agents using an agent communication language which conforms to the FIPA...
...standard. In any event, antitrust is not a roving mandate to question bad standards. It requires an injury to competition, and whether the minimum conditions for competitive harm are present...
...key actors and provides guidance for reaching consensus. While subject matter specialists are an important component of any resolution, this Occasional Paper stresses the multiple perspectives that must be considered....
The American National Standard Institute (ANSI) Standard on Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) was approved in 2004 to fulfil “a need among government and industry purchasers of information technology products for...