The open source paradigm is often defined as a collaborative effort, implying that firms and consumers come together in a non-competitive climate. We show here that open source development can...
A widespread “pro-standards view” holds that compatibility standards and modularity are beneficial but are under-supplied by imperfect markets. The author stresses that this view is not unambiguously proven by economic...
...companies who benefit the economy by developing products that consumers want. The extortionary royalty payments, it is said, constitute a “tax” that ultimately leads to less product development and higher...
The Belgian federal government’s June 2004 decision to promote the use of open standards has been reinforced by the launch of BELGIF [Belgian Government Interoperability Framework], launched by the ICEG...
Two important features of European integration have been a deepening commitment to information privacy as a fundamental human right, and the successful integration of technical standards into regulatory frameworks to...
Imagine a stock market in which buyers and sellers couldn’t find out the prices at which anyone else sold a share of stock. If you wanted to buy (or sell)...
...life cycle, with overall impact measured in billions of dollars. The authors hope to encourage standards involvement, and also future research and analysis that might quantify the financial value of...
Enterprise computing will continue its inexorable march toward industry standards, given the inherent price/performance, TCO, availability, and deployment advantages. New research from IDC confirms that this trend is not only...
...interrelated over time. Our analysis leads us to propose the following hypotheses about the growth of open source communities: (1) communities add new developers by a process of preferential attachment;...
...of humanitarian relief follows the descriptions of standards in the field. I then provide a set of operational recommendations and a set of next steps and possible future research suggestions....