Copyright (c) 2011 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/yugank_goyal Recent documents in Yugank Goyal en-us Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:39:10 PST 3600 http://works.bepress.com/yugank_goyal/1 http://works.bepress.com/yugank_goyal/1 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:41:57 PST The phenomenon of producing Open Source Software based on unconstrained access to source code and the swift growth of the open source business structure of producing software fuelled by Linux Operating System and Apache Web Server have raised important questions, which are of immense scholastic interest. Accordingly many scholars in the last few years have endeavoured to clarify as to why thousands of top-quality programmers contribute freely to an open source product which is a public good. However, there has hardly been any attempt to explain how open source and closed source business structure of producing software can coexist. This paper is an effort in this direction. The paper presents two distinct game theoretic models to explain why open source programmers will coexist alongside closed source programmers.

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