%0 Journal Article %D 2000 %T Economics of Open Source Software %A Justin Pappas Johnson %X A simple model of open source software is presented. Individual user-programmers decide whether to invest their valuable time and effort to develop a software application that will become a public good if so developed. The benefits and drawbacks of open source versus profit driven developments are presented. The effect of changing the population size of user-programmers is considered; finite and asymptotic results (relevant for some of the larger projects that exist) are given. %8 December %G eng %> https://flosshub.org/sites/flosshub.org/files/johnsonopensource.pdf