Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bitzer, Jürgen
• Schrettl, Wolfram
• Schröder, Philipp J.H.

Titel

Intrinsic motivation in open source software development

Ist Teil von

• Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007-03, Vol.35 (1), p.160-169

Ort / Verlag

San Diego: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This papers sheds light on the puzzling fact that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young, motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that when OSS development is understood as the private provision of a public good, these features emerge quite naturally. We adapt a dynamic private-provision-of-public-goods model to reflect key aspects of the OSS phenomenon, such as play value or homo ludens payoff, user-programmers' and gift culture benefits. Such intrinsic motives feature extensively in the wider OSS literature and contribute new insights to the economic analysis. Journal of Comparative Economics 35 (1) (2007) 160–169.