Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · Nov 18 10/ I build an empirical model of private incentives to provide and use web OSS. Firms choose labor and software to maximize profits: revenue from quality production minus web developer costs.
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11/ Investment grows codebases, a form of knowledge capital. Key externality: all firms can benefit from OSS. But benefits are uneven: firms contribute features that primarily help themselves (private benefits) and features in Chinese especially help China (localized benefits).