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JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS
卷 35, 期 1, 页码 160-169出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2006.10.001
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open source software; public goods; homo ludens; war of attrition
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This papers sheds light on the puzzling fact that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young, motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that when OSS development is understood as the private provision of a public good, these features emerge quite naturally. We adapt a dynamic private-provision-of-public-goods model to reflect key aspects of the OSS phenomenon, such as play value or homo ludens payoff, user-programmers' and gift culture benefits. Such intrinsic motives feature extensively in the wider OSS literature and contribute new insights to the economic analysis.
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