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  • May 2001
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  • European Economic Review

The Open Source Movement: Key Research Questions

By: Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
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Abstract

The paper analyzes the incentives of individual programmers and of commercial companies to participate in open source projects. While these incentives are in our opinion well accounted for by the economic paradigm, much empirical and theoretical work is still needed to answer the many interesting questions suggested by the open source movement.

Keywords

Motivation and Incentives; Open Source Distribution

Citation

Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole. "The Open Source Movement: Key Research Questions." Special Issue on Papers and Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the European Economic Association European Economic Review 45, nos. 4-6 (May 2001): 819–826.
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