Users of open source software? How do they get help?

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Singh, Vandana ^a   Twidale, Michael B ^b   Nichols, David M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; SOCIO TECHNICALS; TECHNICAL HELPS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650760378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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