information economics (was Re: Microsoft prohibits GPLed work via licensing of CIFS standards)

[Matthias Leisi]

> The best piece of background material I've found on the topic of
> interoperability and why it's critical is Varian & Shapiro's "Information
> Rules". It even has its own website: http://www.inforules.com/, though you
> need to buy the paper copy, and it's well worth it.

For german readers: The translation is available under the utterly
misleading title "Online zum Erfolg", 1999, Wirtschaftsverlag Langen
Müller/Herbig, ISBN 3-7844-7395-4.

Hal R. Varian has further online materials on his Economics website at
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/

Matthias