Corporate involvement of libre software: Study of presence in debian code over time

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 234, Issue , 2007, Pages 121-132

  Robles, Gregorio ^a   Dueñas, Santiago ^a   Gonzalez Barahona, Jesus M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Empirical Software business; Involvement of companies; Libre software; Open source

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GNU/LINUX; LIBRE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; SOFTWARE BUSINESS; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547947289     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_10     Document Type: Article

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