The Hardvard Business School’s Working Knowledge magazine is running an interview with Harvard Business School professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, who have been exploring the fundamental competitive dynamics question: Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position? the result of this investigation; Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows, has just been accepted for publication in a special issue of Management Science.
While I won’t pretend to be as well-versed in formal economic modelling as I would need to be in order to closely evaluate what they have to say, I find the paper (and the interview) interesting, and I welcome the scholarly focus on the Linux/Windows debate.
Harvard Business School Weighs In
The Hardvard Business School’s Working Knowledge magazine is running an interview with Harvard Business School professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, who have been exploring the fundamental competitive dynamics question: Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position? the result of this investigation; Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. [...]
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Dana Blackenhorn responds to this article, over at ZDNet that does much to expand on the author’s caveat that the were only creating strict economic models.