Tragedy of the FOSS commons? Investigating the institutional designs of free/libre and open source software projects

First Monday

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Schweik, Charles M ^a,b   English, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Natl Center for Digital Government   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts ^*

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EID: 33847262088     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v12i2.1619     Document Type: Article

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