Open-source software is, in business-world terms, weird. The people who write it and test it collaborate as volunteers. Yet corporations have built billion-dollar businesses around it. This juxtaposition has led some scholars outside of economics to theorize that a new sharing economy is dawning in which economic incentives have to cede ground to other motivations.
The Economics of Knowledge Sharing
Josh Lerner on patents, open source, and lawsuits.
October 16, 2014
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