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Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 8
p. 213b
Mechanism Design to Promote Free Market and Open Source Software Innovation
Geoffrey Parker, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Marshall Van Alstyne, MIT Center for eBusiness, Cambridge, MA
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Some economic strategists now assert that the
greatest value in information goods is not created by thestrongest
and most restrictive intellectual property protection. Proponents
of Open Source Software argue for value created by peer review
and openly modifiable shared code. To explore these ideas, we
articulate a balance of incentives as indexed by the length of time
that software remains proprietary, and openness as indexed by
the amount of the platform code base that an author releases to
the developer community (and users) to promote the creation of
new products. We analyze the trade-off between early and late
release based on a two-sided network externality that explores
how the release of free information benefits those who develop
as well as those who consume. We also introduce a framing
innovation that places existing licenses in a space that suggests
where unexplored socially optimal licenses might exist.
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Citation:
Geoffrey Parker, Marshall Van Alstyne,
"Mechanism Design to Promote Free Market and Open Source Software Innovation,"
hicss,
p. 213b,
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'05) - Track 8,
2005
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