Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects
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- 1 January 2003
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In this paper we report on the results of a study of the effort and motivations of individuals to contributing to the creation of Free/Open Source software. WeKeywords
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