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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829113903321

Autore

Lerner Joshua

Titolo

The comingled code : open source and economic development / / Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-89925-2

9786612899256

0-262-28957-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchankermanMark

Disciplina

005.3

Soggetti

Open source software

Computer software - Development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Software and growth -- The history of open source -- The supply side : comingling open source and proprietary software -- The demand side : assessing trade-offs and making choices -- Assessing government policies toward software / with Jacques Crémer -- The takeaways.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman, drawing on a new, large-scale database, show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and discuss the policy implications of these findings.