We consider software developers who can either work on an open source project or on a closed source project. The former provides a publicly available signal about their talent, whereas the latter provides a signal only observed by their employer. We show that a talented employee may initially prefer a less paying job as an open source developer to commercial closed source projects, because a publicly available signal gives him a better bargaining position when renegotiating wages with his employer after the signal has been revealed. Also, we derive conditions under which two effects suggested by standard intuition are reversed: a 'pooling equilibrium' (with both talented and untalented workers doing closed source) is less likely if differen...
Job market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why individuals engage in volunteer progr...
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key facto...
The allocation of time and effort within the communities of Open Source Software developers is an in...
We consider software developers who can either work on an open source project or on a closed source ...
Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private r...
Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private r...
Using the Internet as a basis for communication, collaboration, and storage of artifacts, the open s...
This paper examines the incentives of programmers to contribute to open source software projects on ...
Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expe...
This paper explores empirically what factors influence a firm’s decision to contribute and to take lea...
Information sharing has become an important phenomenon in Information Systems, as “Open Source” soft...
In our paper, individual programmers participate in OS programming to signal their programming skill...
Traditional business models for software development are currently being challenged by the phenomeno...
Many open source projects have long become commercial. This paper shows just how much of open source...
A simple model of open source software (as typified by the Linux operating system) is presented. Ind...
Job market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why individuals engage in volunteer progr...
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key facto...
The allocation of time and effort within the communities of Open Source Software developers is an in...
We consider software developers who can either work on an open source project or on a closed source ...
Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private r...
Open source projects produce goods or standards that do not allow for the appropriation of private r...
Using the Internet as a basis for communication, collaboration, and storage of artifacts, the open s...
This paper examines the incentives of programmers to contribute to open source software projects on ...
Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expe...
This paper explores empirically what factors influence a firm’s decision to contribute and to take lea...
Information sharing has become an important phenomenon in Information Systems, as “Open Source” soft...
In our paper, individual programmers participate in OS programming to signal their programming skill...
Traditional business models for software development are currently being challenged by the phenomeno...
Many open source projects have long become commercial. This paper shows just how much of open source...
A simple model of open source software (as typified by the Linux operating system) is presented. Ind...
Job market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why individuals engage in volunteer progr...
A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key facto...
The allocation of time and effort within the communities of Open Source Software developers is an in...