Why do commercial companies contribute to open source software?
- 1 April 2012
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in International Journal of Information Management
- Vol. 32 (2), 106-117
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2011.10.003
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