The Protestant ethic strikes back: Open source developers and the ethic of capitalism

First Monday

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Mikkonen, Teemu ^a   Vadén, Tere ^a,b   Vainio, Niklas ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Open Source Research Group   (Finland)

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EID: 33847313218     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v12i2.1623     Document Type: Article

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