Why most open source development projects do not succeed?

First International Workshop on Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development, FLOSS'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-5

  Katsamakas, Evangelos ^a   Georgantzas, Nicholas ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; OPERATIONAL SOFTWARE;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 36048959509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FLOSS.2007.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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