Competition between Commercial Open Source Software Firms under the GNU General Public License
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عنوان ژورنال: Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2040-7459,2040-7467
DOI: 10.19026/rjaset.5.4209