How Open Source Software Works: 'Free' User-to-User Assistance?
Preprint
- 1 January 2001
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Open source software products represent the leading edge of innovation development and diffusion systems conducted for and by users themselves - no manufacturerKeywords
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