Information Systems Research, 2013, Volume 24,
Issue 4, Page 1068-1086.
Open source software is becoming increasingly prominent, and the economic structure of open-source development is changing. In recent years, firms motivated by revenues from software services markets have become the primary contributors to open-source development. In this paper we study the role of services in open source software development and explore the choice between open source and proprietary software. Specifically, our economic model jointly analyzes the investment and pricing decisions of the originators of software and of subsequent open-source contributors.
Keywords: analytical modeling;competitive impacts of IS;economics of IS