OS Developers Care About Competition: The Case of LaTeX
June 15, 2007
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Developed over three decades, the open source LaTeX typesetting software came into competition with a variety of open source and proprietary alternatives. This case study shows that OS developers are concerned about users’ needs and this motivates them to attract users by competing with proprietary software in terms of usability.
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development, history, interfaces, LaTeX, MiKTeX, open source, Operating system, OS, OSS, TeX, typesetting, usability
