Educational models and open source: resisting the proprietary university
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Open source content contributors' response to free-riding: The effect of personality and context
Computers in Human Behavior
An instructional design of open source networking laboratory and curriculum
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Convivial software: an end-user perspective on free and open source software
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Analysis of participation in an online photo-sharing community: A multidimensional perspective
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Open source software: A community of altruists
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The search for a research method for studying OSS process innovation
Empirical Software Engineering
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The transformation of open source software
MIS Quarterly
Learning in the GNU/Linux community
Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education
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From the Publisher:Ten years ago, college student Linus Torvalds retreated to his own computer to write code. He quips, "I couldn't afford software that I liked, so I wrote my own operating system." Not only did he write the operating system, he gave it away and invited other software engineers to improve it.The rest is history. Today, Torvalds has become the key figure in the open source software movement. The powerful operating system he wrote, Linux, has grown into a major force in the computer industry, while its voluntary development model has made Linux the world's largest collaborative project. Hundreds of the world's best engineers contribute to the improvement of Linux. Over 12 million machines, including many of the servers that power the World Wide Web, now run on Linux, as do the top-of-the-line offerings from such hardware giants as IBM and Compaq.Just for Fun chronicles Torvalds's amazing lifefrom his eccentric childhood in Finland, to his gangly, geeky teenage years when his greatest joy was writing programs on his grandfather's VIC-20 computer, to his rise to world-wide fame with Linux. Brimming with Torvalds's candid observations and opinions, this is a must-read for anyone who wants to know where high tech and business are going in the future.