ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR PARTICIPATING IN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 365-372

  Hann, Il Horn ^a   Roberts, Jeff ^b   Slaughter, Sandra ^b   Fielding, Roy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Apache Software Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

COMMUNITY IS; DIVERSE FIELDS; ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITIES; OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECTS; OPEN-SOURCE; PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOURCE CODES;

WAGES;

EID: 85063372838     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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