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Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm / Stephen M. Maurer, Suzanne Scotchmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maurer, Stephen M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12148.
- NBER working paper series no. w12148
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Open Source Software
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.
- Summary:
- Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different types of inefficiencies and different biases in R&D investment. Open source style of software development remedies a defect of intellectual property protection, namely, that it does not generally require or encourage disclosure of source code. We review a considerable body of survey evidence and theory that seeks to explain why developers participate in open source collaborations instead of keeping their code proprietary, and evaluates the extent to which open source may improve welfare compared to proprietary development.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2006.
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