Josh Lerner on Public Policies for Open Source and Comingled Code

Podcast interview via http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/6123

Description

"Josh Lerner talks to Viv Davies about his recent book (co-authored with Mark Schankerman), ‘The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development’. Lerner discusses the economic impact of open source software and its relationship to innovation and growth. Drawing from a new database Lerner describes how open source and proprietary software interact and suggests how government policy should ensure that open source competes effectively with proprietary software. The interview was recorded by telephone on 14 February 2011."