Equilibrium Selection and Public-Good Provision: The Development of Open-Source Software.

Collective-action problems arise in a variety of situations. Open-source software is a recent and important example. Copyright restrictions on open-source projects stipulate that any user may modify the software so long as any resulting innovation is freely available to all. In economic parlance, th...

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Main Authors: Myatt, D, Wallace, C
Formato: Journal article
Idioma:English
Publicado: 2002