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Internet Entrepreneurship: Linux and the Dynamics of Open Source Software

Overview This paper examines the development of the Linux operating system, in order to examine from where the initial investment of ideas which resulted in the software structure emerged. Linux is taken as one example of open source software, and the analysis focuses on the reasons for software development, particularly in terms of the underlying dynamics of incentives, skills and entrepreneurship for open source software.

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Publisher	University of Manchester	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2001
Format	White Papers
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Linux Server OS

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