R&D Competition between Commercial Open Source and Proprietary Software Firms
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of u- and e- Service, Science and Technology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2005-4246,2005-4246
DOI: 10.14257/ijunesst.2017.10.6.03