[P2P-F] Anyone know about Comingled Code?

Sat Feb 19 01:28:37 CET 2011

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12308

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"Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often
generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the
benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from
the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic
evidence of the impact of open source on consumers, firms, and
economic development in general. This book fills that gap. In The
Comingled Code, 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.

The new data (from a range of countries in varying stages of
development) documents the mixing of open source and proprietary
software: firms sell proprietary software while contributing to open
source, and users extensively mix and match the two. Lerner and
Schankerman examine the ways in which software differs from other
technologies in promoting economic development, what motivates
individuals and firms to contribute to open source projects, how
developers and users view the trade-offs between the two kinds of
software, and how government policies can ensure that open source
competes effectively with proprietary software and contributes to
economic development.

About the Authors

Josh Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at
Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and
Entrepreneurial Units. He is the author of The Boulevard of Broken
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture
Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It.

Mark Schankerman is Professor of Economics and Research Associate at
the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics
and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in
London."

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