...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....
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Different market settings are considered in a free trade environment, where firms can choose technology, quality, and price or quantity. The shape of competition in prices requires the intervention of...
...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....
...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...
U.S. legal changes have made it easier to obtain patents on inventions that use software. Software patents now comprise 15% of all patents. Compared with other patents, software patents are...
...through the activity of a software development community that deliberately did not follow profit motivations. Second, a hierarchical coordination emerged without the support of an organization with proprietary rights. Third,...
...can be explained by combining the recently developed organizational theory of professions with the classic one of clubs. Still, the explanans falls within the broad rubric of the knowledge approach....