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The Practice of Free and Open Source Software Processes
Michel Pawlak, Ciaran Bryce, Stéphane Laurière
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Michel Pawlak, Ciaran Bryce, Stéphane Laurière. The Practice of Free and Open Source Software Processes. [Research Report] PI 1891, 2008, pp.43. �inria-00274823�
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