How open is open enough?
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@MISC{_howopen,
author = {},
title = {How open is open enough?},
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Abstract
Computer platforms provide an integrated architecture of hardware and software standards as a basis for developing complementary assets. The most successful platforms were owned by proprietary sponsors that controlled platform evolution and appropriated associated rewards. Responding to the Internet and open source systems, three traditional vendors of proprietary platforms experimented with hybrid strategies which attempted to combine the advantages of open source software while retaining control and differentiation. Such hybrid standards strategies reflect the competing imperatives for adoption and appropriability, and suggest the conditions under which such strategies may be preferable to either the purely open or purely proprietary alternatives.
Keyphrases
successful platform software standard open source software hybrid standard strategy complementary asset integrated architecture hybrid strategy open source system proprietary alternative platform evolution computer platform traditional vendor associated reward proprietary platform proprietary sponsor
