Evolutionary success of Open Source Software: An investigation into exogenous drivers

Electronic Communications of the EASST

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Beecher, Karl ^a   Boldyreff, Cornelia ^a   Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Rank, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolvability; FLOSS; Metrics; Repositories; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 62849087671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18632122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14279/tuj.eceasst.8.113.111     Document Type: Article

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