The impact of free and open source licensing on operating system software markets

Telematics and Informatics

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 97-110

  Välimäki, Mikko ^a   Oksanen, Ville ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Competition; Licensing; Open source; Operating systems; Software markets

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPETITION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SERVERS; UNIX;

OPEN SOURCE LICENSING; SOFTWARE MARKETS; SOTWARE LICENSING;

COPYRIGHTS;

EID: 7444250269     PISSN: 07365853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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