Community-based production of open-source software: What do we know about the developers who participate?

Information Economics and Policy - Tập 20 Số 4 - Trang 364-398 - 2008
Paul A. David1,2,3, Joseph Shapiro4
1All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK
2Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6072, USA
3UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, Netherlands
4Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA

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