Open Source Reuse in Commercial Firms
IEEE Software
The impact of free and open source licensing on operating system software markets
Telematics and Informatics - Special issue: Copyright: rights-holders, users and innovators
Why profit-oriented companies enter the OS field?: intrinsic vs. extrinsic incentives
5-WOSSE Proceedings of the fifth workshop on Open source software engineering
In search of the sweet spot: agile open collaborative corporate software development
SAICSIT '05 Proceedings of the 2005 annual research conference of the South African institute of computer scientists and information technologists on IT research in developing countries
User acceptance model of open source software
Computers in Human Behavior
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
Peer to peer support for the reuse of open source software libraries
IRI'09 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE international conference on Information Reuse & Integration
A stage model of open source activities: an exploratory analysis on open source repository
ICACT'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Advanced communication technology
Firms as Incubators of Open-Source Software
Information Systems Research
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