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Understanding the Motivations, Participation, and Performance of Open Source Software Developers: A Longitudinal Study of the Apache Projects

Submitted by msquire on Fri, 2011-04-22 09:55
J. A. Roberts, Hann, I. - H., and Slaughter, S. A., “Understanding the Motivations, Participation, and Performance of Open Source Software Developers: A Longitudinal Study of the Apache Projects”, Management Science, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 984 - 999, 2006.
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