The Fourth FLOSS Workshop will take place in Jena (Germany) on July 1 and 2, 2010. The theme of the workshop will be “Business models, social networks and collaborative knowledge development”.
The call for papers is available at http://floss2010.pbworks.com, and can be downloaded at http://floss2010.pbworks.com/f/Call+for+Papers.pdf.
Two special guests will give introductory lectures about their research in that domain: Jürgen Bitzer will present his research on “Returns to Open Source Software Engagement: An Empirical Test of the Signaling Hypothesis”, and Rebeca Méndez-Durón will present her paper “Returns from Social Capital in Open Source Software Networks”.
Information about Jena is available on the workshop’s website (links at the top). Jena is a very pleasant and very old university town in what used to be East Germany. It is very well linked by high-speed trains from Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich.
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Open source software and innovation. Presentation made on August 3, 2009 at the 3rd Jena Summer Academy on “Innovation and Uncertainty”. How much innovation is there in open source software? How efficient is the open-source development model? Could open source software be a threat to innovation, or does it rather support and accelerate proprietary innovation?
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I show in a new paper that open source software, when it competes with proprietary software, makes software users better off than proprietary software alone could. Conversely, proprietary software, by competing with open source software, guarantees better social outcomes than if open source existed alone.
The paper is available at SSRN and RePEc.
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