Rent-Seekers and Donators in Open Source - The Institutional Foundations of their Symbiotic Co-existence;Open Source aus ökonomischer Sicht zu den Institutonellen Rahmenbedingungen einer spenderkompatiblen Rentensuche

Wirtschaftsinformatik

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 527-532

  Franck, Egon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crowding out; Donative behavior; General Public License; Open source software; Peer review; Property rights; Rent seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347589673     PISSN: 09376429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03250917     Document Type: Article

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