Open source versus closed source: Software quality in monopoly and competitive markets

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 903-918

  Raghunathan, Srinivasan ^a   Prasad, Ashutosh ^a   Mishra, Birendra K ^a,b   Chang, Hsihui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Open source; Software quality

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMPETITIVE MARKET; OPEN SOURCE; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 27744445486     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.853493     Document Type: Article

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