@article {flosswp3, title = {Profiting From Voluntary Information Spillovers: How Users Benefit By Freely Revealing Their Innovations}, year = {2000}, month = {July}, abstract = {Software users reveal the code they have written to other users for free. This behavior is contrary to conventional wisdom in economics - but is essential to the functioning of an effective user innovation community. This paper explores conditions under which the free revealing of innovations (code, in the case of OS) pays for innovating users.}, attachments = {https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/evhippel-voluntaryinfospillover.pdf}, author = {Dietmar Harhoff and Joachim Henkel and von Hippel, Eric} }