The role of trust in OSS communities - Case Linux Kernel community

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 234, Issue , 2007, Pages 223-228

  Antikainen, Maria ^a   Aaltonen, Timo ^b   Väisänen, Jaani ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Case study; Linux Kernel; OSS community; Survey; Trust

Indexed keywords

LINUX KERNEL; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; OSS COMMUNITY; TRUST;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547955205     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_19     Document Type: Article

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