Representing compatibility and standards: a case study of Web browsers (original) (raw)

Abstract

Abstract Compatibility has a great importance in many markets and particularly in software. Users consider compatibility valuable as it allows them to interact with other users using compatible products. The set of users using a product is the installed base of that product. Network externalities are the effects of higher enjoyment of a product as a consequence of the product's large installed base (Katz and Shapiro, 1992; Rohlfs, 1974).

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