Willingness to pay in an open source software environment

Information Systems Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 218-236

  Raghu, T S ^a   Sinha, Rajiv ^a   Vinze, Ajay ^a   Burton, Orneita ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Intellectual property; Open source software; Software piracy; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECONOMICS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; OPEN SYSTEMS; RESOURCE VALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; COMPLEX INFORMATION; CONTINGENT VALUATIONS; DETERRENCE CONTROLS; PREVENTIVE CONTROL; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE PRICING; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 67649529384     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1080.0176     Document Type: Article

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