Bug-fixing and code-writing: The private provision of open source software

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 389-406

  Bitzer, Jürgen ^a   Schröder, Philipp J H ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Open source software; Public goods; War of attrition

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROGRAM DEBUGGING;

BUG-FIXING; CODE-WRITING; COST OF PROGRAMMING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS);

OPEN SYSTEMS;

PRIVATE SECTOR; SOFTWARE;

EID: 17144386789     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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