Friday, August 14, 2009

Open source and private firms can coexist

Open source is a mystery to many, given that contributors give away their innovations and competitors can just scoop them up. One would thus think that an industry would either be proprietary or open source, but not both at the same time.Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde show that it is possible. The critical features are that the open and proprietary goods not be perfect substitutes and that

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