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- Eric S. Raymond (1999). "Homesteading the Noosphere". The Cathedral & the Bazaar. O'Reilly. ISBN 1-56592-724-9. hardcover, October 1999; paperback, January 2001.— also includes "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", "The Magic Cauldron" and "Revenge of the Hackers"
- ↑ Raymond, Eric. The Cathedral and the Bazaar. pp. 93–4.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ Manenti, Fabio M.; Comino, Stefano; Parisi, Maria Laura (2007). "From Planning to Mature: On the Determinants of Open Source Take-Off" (PDF). doi:10.2139/ssrn.766024. S2CID 1046928.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ Open Borders? Immigration in Open Source Projects | Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories. 20 May 2007. p. 6. doi:10.1109/MSR.2007.23. ISBN 9780769529509. S2CID 636686.
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- ↑ 橙乃 ままれ [@marmalade_macro] (December 7, 2013). "@Noneuseless その論文はログホラの背景のひとつですね。書かれている、豊かさ、贈与、名誉の考えは、ハッカー文化の最良の部分ですし、それはより広がるべきだと思います。" (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved December 7, 2013– via Twitter.
