Название: Acquisitions and Open Source Software Development
Автор: Michael Vetter
Издательство: Springer
Год: 2021
Формат: ePUB, PDF
Страниц: 208
Размер: 10 Mb
Язык: English

Participation of firms in Open Source Software (OSS) development is steadily increasing. In fact, a substantial part of OSS projects today are developed in informal collaboration between firms and a community of voluntary contributors. As more and more firms are active in OSS, acquisitions of firms active in OSS development occur increasingly often. Yet, despite the economic and practical importance of OSS, research has so far overlooked this phenomenon.