Participation in Free and Open Source communities: An empirical study of community members' perceptions

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 203, Issue , 2006, Pages 221-231

  Schofield, Andrew J ^a   Cooper, Grahame S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON INTERESTS; COMMUNICATION MEDIUM; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; SOURCE CODES; SUPPORT NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 33749165730     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-34226-5_22     Document Type: Article

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