Impact of users' expertise on the competition between proprietary and open source software

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lin, Lihui ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKET STRUCTURE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (OSS); SOURCE CODE;

CODES (SYMBOLS); OPEN SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33749664410     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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