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Universidade Nove de Julho
2006
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- A beautiful mind meets free software: game theory, competition and cooperation Alexandre Oliva Ingeniería Adam Smith Competition Game theory Cooperation Russel Crowe, playing John Forbes Nash Junior (aka JohnNash) in Ron Howards motion picture A beautiful mind,claims that Adam Smiths theory that in competition, individualambition serves the common good is incomplete,and that the best result will come from everybody in thegroup doing whats best for himself and the group. AdamSmiths motto synthesizes pretty well what happens in thecompetition-driven proprietary software development market,whereas Nashs adds the cooperation that is so commoneven among competitors in free software markets. Everycommercial free software developer tries to obtain its edge bydeveloping better software, thus contributing to the softwarepool that even its competitors will be able to build upon. I.e.,every free software developer does whats best for himself,and the group, so the best outcome is achieved. The papershows how the GNU General Public License (or GNU GPL orsimply GPL) licensing model can be economically favorableto developers over proprietary and even Berkeley SoftwareDistribution (BSD)-like licenses. 2006 artículo científico 1678-5428 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81009903 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=810 Exacta application/pdf Universidade Nove de Julho Exacta (Brasil) Num.Esp Vol.4