The rise of Firefox in the web browser industry: The role of open source in setting standards.

Recent years have witnessed a continuous erosion of the Microsoft Internet Explorer share in the web browser market, mainly induced by the continuous gains of Mozilla Firefox, an open source software product. This tendency would seem to contradict the well-established belief that in a standards batt...

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Published in:	Business History Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 834 - 857
Main Authors:	Oshri, Ilan, de Vries, HenkJ., de Vries, Huibert
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Aug2010
Subjects:	Web browsers Internet software Microsoft Corp. Mozilla Corp. Open source software Market share Economic competition Market erosion
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost