Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects

867 indexed citations
published 2003
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SSRN Electronic Journal

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About Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects

This paper, published in 2003, received 867 indexed citations . Written by Karim R. Lakhani and Robert G. Wolf covering the research area of Communication, Computer Science Applications and Information Systems. It is primarily cited by scholars working on Computer Science Applications (695 citations), Communication (387 citations) and Information Systems (180 citations). Published in SSRN Electronic Journal.

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This paper is also available at doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.443040.

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