Analyzing Firm Participation in Open Source Communities
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چکیده
The emergence of open source software (OSS) communities, in which individual contributors freely share their innovations, has presented organizations with new opportunities to sell their software products and services (Von Hippel & Von Krogh, 2003). Well-known examples of firms that use the communal resources of OSS communities are IBM, SUN, and Red Hat. These and other organizations hope to benefit from OSS because ABSTRACT
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