Seeing eye to eye? An exploratory study of free open source software users' perceptions

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2287-2296

  Gwebu, Kholekile L ^a   Wang, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Free open source software; User perceptions; User segments

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; EXPLORATORY STUDIES; MARKET SEGMENT; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; POTENTIAL BARRIERS; USER PERCEPTIONS; USER SEGMENT; USERS' PERCEPTION;

COMMERCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 77957369065     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.07.011     Document Type: Article

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