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Incentives: Neither Left nor Right but Center
Copyright, 2001 ©
Marshall W. Van AlstyneSchool of Information
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Incentives to develop software
U.S.
U.K.
Germany
JapanFrance
Italy
BrazilKoreaRussiaChina0
10
20
30
40
50
0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
Piracy Rate
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Source: Software & Information Industry Association
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Competition from OSS is Valuable• Open Mozilla
model easy for 3rd party dvprs to upgrade
• Innovation in IE stopped with IE 4 “Auto-image resizing: It’s a feature not a bug, really.”
Source: Salon 9/10 2002 “Mozilla Rising” Farhad Manjoo
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What do we protect?
Look & Feel Copyright Function Patent
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OSS Classification
Type Free Redist UnlimitedUse
Src.Avail.
Src.Mod.
PublicCheckIn
Viral
Commercial
Trial SW x
Shareware x x
Royalty Free Bin. x x x
Royalty Free Lib. x x x x
Open Src (BSD) x x x x x
Open Src (Apache) x x x x x x
Open Src (Linux/GNU) x x x x x x x
Source: Vinod Valloppillil / The Halloween Document
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Most licenses are corner solutions
• Let [0,1] be the measure of openness.
• Let t[0,1] be the time to release derivative works.
tt
GPL
BSDProprietary
Copyflex
100
1
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Pric
e
QuantityPr
ice
Quantity
Market One(Acrobat Reader)
Market Two(Acrobat Distiller)
Initially, there are profits to be made in both markets.
q1 q2
p1 p2
Consider profits in two markets
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Pric
e
Pric
e
Market One(Acrobat Reader)
Market Two(Acrobat Distiller)
Initially, there are profits to be made in both markets.
But subsidizing market one with a free good canincrease demand and profits in market twomore than the loss in market one.
Quantity Quantityq1 q2
p1
p2
Consider profits in two markets
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