Open source software and economic growth
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Giampaolo Garzarelli; Yasmina Reem Limam; BjΓΈrn Thomassen
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Article
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2008
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Taylor and Francis Group
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English
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The article turns to classical economic insights on the division of labor and to institutional reasoning to identify some costs and benefits of open source software (OSS) and proprietary software production. It suggests that, thanks to its licenses, OSS favors market expansion more than proprietary