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Joining open source software communities: an analysis of newbies’ first interactions on project mailing lists

Creator:

King, Scott T.

Abstract:

Open source software has become a powerful force in the world of computing. While once confined to the domain of technical specialists, people of all types have begun to adopt this software – from the casual web-surfer who uses Firefox, to the professional web developer who codes in PHP or...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

Full Text:

group, “F/OSS” (Free/Open Source Software), or “FLOSS” (Free/Libre/Open Source Software). In 1991