Who is an open source software developer? Profiling a community of Linux developers

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 67-72

  Dempsey, Bert J ^a   Weiss, Debra ^c   Jones, Paul ^b   Greenberg, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0042383281     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/503124.503125     Document Type: Article

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