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  • June 2002
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  • Journal of Industrial Economics

Some Simple Economics of Open Source

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
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Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "Some Simple Economics of Open Source." Journal of Industrial Economics 50, no. 2 (June 2002): 197–234. (Earlier versions distributed as HBS Working Paper No. 00-068 and NBER Working Paper No. 7600.)
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