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=== Literature on legal and economic aspects ===
Abramson, Bruce (2005). Digital Phoenix; Why the Information Economy Collapsed and How it Will Rise Again. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-51196-4.
Benkler, Y. (December 2002). "Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm" (PDF). Yale Law Journal. 112 (3): 369–446. arXiv:cs/0109077. doi:10.2307/1562247. hdl:10535/2974. ISSN 0044-0094. JSTOR 1562247. S2CID 16684329.
Berry, D.M.; Moss, G. (2008). "Libre Culture: Meditations on Free Culture" (PDF). Canada: Pygmalion Books.
Bitzer, J.; Schröder, P.J.H. (2005). "The Impact of Entry and Competition by Open Source Software on Innovation Activity" (PDF). Industrial Organization. EconWPA.
v. Engelhardt, S. (2008). "The Economic Properties of Software" (PDF). Jena Economic Research Papers. 2: 2008–045.
v. Engelhardt, S. (2008): "Intellectual Property Rights and Ex-Post Transaction Costs: the Case of Open and Closed Source Software", Jena Economic Research Papers 2008-047. (PDF)
v. Engelhardt, S.; Swaminathan, S. (2008). "Open Source Software, Closed Source Software or Both: Impacts on Industry Growth and the Role of Intellectual Property Rights" (PDF). Discussion Papers of Diw Berlin.
European Commission. (2006). Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies sector in the EU. Brussels.
v. Hippel, E.; v. Krogh, G. (2003). "Open source software and the "private-collective" innovation model: Issues for organization science" (PDF). Organization Science. 14 (2): 209–223. doi:10.1287/orsc.14.2.209.14992. hdl:1721.1/66145. ISSN 1047-7039. S2CID 11947692.
Kostakis, V.; Bauwens, M. (2014). Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-41506-6. (wiki)
Lerner, Josh; Pathak, Parag A.; Tirole, Jean (2006). "The Dynamics of Open Source Contributors". American Economic Review. 96 (2): 114–8. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.510.9948. doi:10.1257/000282806777211874. ISSN 0002-8282. Archived from the original on 4 January 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
Lerner, Josh; Tirole, Jean (2002). "Some simple economics on open source". Journal of Industrial Economics. 50 (2): 197–234. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.461.3373. doi:10.1111/1467-6451.00174. ISSN 0022-1821. S2CID 219722756. earlier revision (PDF)
Lerner, J.; Tirole, J. (2005). "The Scope of Open Source Licensing". The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 21: 20–56. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.72.465. doi:10.1093/jleo/ewi002. ISSN 8756-6222.
Lerner, J.; Tirole, J. (2005). "The Economics of Technology Sharing: Open Source and Beyond" (PDF). Journal of Economic Perspectives. 19 (2): 99–120. doi:10.1257/0895330054048678. ISSN 0895-3309. S2CID 17968894.
Maurer, S.M. (2008). "Open source biology: Finding a niche (or maybe several)". UMKC Law Review. 76 (2). doi:10.2139/ssrn.1114371. ISSN 1556-5068. S2CID 54046895. SSRN 1114371.
Osterloh, M.; Rota, S. (2007). "Open source software development — Just another case of collective invention?" (PDF). Research Policy. 36 (2): 157–171. doi:10.1016/j.respol.2006.10.004. hdl:10419/214322. ISSN 0048-7333.
Riehle, D. (April 2007). "The Economic Motivation of Open Source: Stakeholder Perspectives". IEEE Computer. 40 (4): 25–32. doi:10.1109/MC.2007.147. ISSN 0018-9162. S2CID 168544.
Rossi, M.A. (2006). "Decoding the free/open source software puzzle: A survey of theoretical and empirical contributions" (PDF). In Bitzer, J.; Schröder, P. (eds.). The Economics of Open Source Software Development. Elsevier. pp. 15–55. ISBN 978-0-444-52769-1.
Sampathkumar, K.S. Understanding FOSS Version 4.0 revised. ISBN 978-8-184-65469-1.
Schiff, A. (2002). "The Economics of Open Source Software: A Survey of the Early Literature" (PDF). Review of Network Economics. 1 (1): 66–74. doi:10.2202/1446-9022.1004. ISSN 2194-5993. S2CID 201280221. Archived from the original on 7 May 2003.
Schwarz, M.; Takhteyev, Y. (2010). "Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to the Hold-Up Problem". Journal of Public Economic Theory. 12 (4): 609–639. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.625.2368. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9779.2010.01467.x. ISSN 1097-3923. S2CID 154317482. earlier revision
Spagnoletti, P.; Federici, T. (2011). "Exploring the Interplay Between FLOSS Adoption and Organizational Innovation". Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 29 (15): 279–298. doi:10.17705/1CAIS.02915.