The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

by Mark Schankerman and Josh Lerner

Book Overview

The interaction of open source and proprietary software and the implications for economic development.

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open source on consumers, firms, and economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262014637
• ISBN13: 9780262014632
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher