Analyzing Open Source Business with Porter’s Five Forces

Leveraging Open Source Licenses and Open Source Communities in Hybrid Commercial Open Source Business Models

The general research idea behind this work is that a framework can be created to describe commercial open source business models as combinations of different criteria. Goal of this paper is to find and describe the criteria by answering the question how software vendors leverage open source software and open source communities as well as multiproduct and multilicense strategies in commercial op...

Analyzing Firm Participation in Open Source Communities

The emergence of open source software (OSS) communities, in which individual contributors freely share their innovations, has presented organizations with new opportunities to sell their software products and services (Von Hippel & Von Krogh, 2003). Well-known examples of firms that use the communal resources of OSS communities are IBM, SUN, and Red Hat. These and other organizations hope to be...

Analyzing huge pathology images with open source software

BACKGROUND Digital pathology images are increasingly used both for diagnosis and research, because slide scanners are nowadays broadly available and because the quantitative study of these images yields new insights in systems biology. However, such virtual slides build up a technical challenge since the images occupy often several gigabytes and cannot be fully opened in a computer's memory. Mo...

Emerging business models for open source hardware

The Commercial Open Source Business Model

Commercial open source software projects are open source software projects that are owned by a single firm that derives a direct and significant revenue stream from the software. Commercial open source at first glance represents an economic paradox: How can a firm earn money if it is making its product available for free as open source? This paper presents the core properties of commercial open...