A Dynamic Model of Adoption and Improvement for Open Source Business Applications
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Many commercial software firms face the possibility that free and open source software (FOSS) will disrupt their markets. A “disruptive innovation” is a new product, service, or business model that initially enters a market as a low-priced, lower-quality alternative to the products of market incumbents but which, through a process of rapid improvement, eventually satisfies mainstream consumers and supplants some or all incumbents (Christensen, 1997; Markides, 2006). Prototypical examples of disruptive innovations include discount online brokerages (which won significant market share away from established full-service brokerages) and personal computers (which evolved into a viable substitute for larger, more expensive mini and mainframe computers). The disruptive effect of FOSS on comAbstrAct
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