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The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780262014632

Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013

DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014632.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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(p.1) 1 Introduction
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The Comingled Code
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Josh Lerner

Mark Schankerman

Publisher:
The MIT Press
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262014632.003.0001

This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the potential impact of open source software on economic development. This volume examines whether certain types of computer software promote the growth of a software industry or the growth of a nation leads it turn to a given set of software. It also addresses several relevant questions. These include the differences between software and other technologies when it comes to promoting economic development, motivations for contributing to open source projects, management of the trade-offs between proprietary and open source projects and government policies required to ensure fair competition between proprietary and open source software.

Keywords:   open source software, economic development, software industry, computer software, technologies, open source projects, government policies

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