@article {1856,
	title = {The Economic Case for Open Source Foundations},
	journal = {Computer},
	volume = {43},
	year = {2010},
	month = {01/2010},
	pages = {86 - 90},
	abstract = {An open source foun-da-tion is a group of peo-ple and com-pa-nies that has come together to jointly develop com-mu-nity open source soft-ware. Exam-ples include the Apache Soft-ware Foun-da-tion, the Eclipse Foun-da-tion, and the Gnome Foun-da-tion. There are many rea-sons why soft-ware devel-op-ment firms join and sup-port a foun-da-tion. One com-mon eco-nomic moti-va-tion is to save costs in the devel-op-ment of the soft-ware by spread-ing them over the par-tic-i-pat-ing par-ties. How-ever, this is just the begin-ning. Beyond shar-ing costs, par-tic-i-pat-ing firms can increase their rev-enue through the pro-vi-sion and increased sale of com-ple-men-tary prod-ucts. Also, by estab-lish-ing a suc-cess-ful open source plat-form, soft-ware firms can com-pete more effec-tively across tech-nol-ogy stacks and thereby increase their address-able mar-ket. Not to be neglected, com-mu-nity open source soft-ware is a com-mon good, cre-at-ing increased gen-eral wel-fare and hence good-will for the involved com-pa-nies.},
	issn = {0018-9162},
	doi = {10.1109/MC.2010.24},
	url = {http://dirkriehle.com/2010/01/06/the-economic-case-for-open-source-foundations/},
	author = {Dirk Riehle}
}
