4 ThesesFinal Thesis: How Open Source Foundations Handle Conflicting Interests in Company-Started Projects
Abstract: As Open Source Software has become nearly ubiquitous, more and more companies have started to open up the code of their products. Even more radical, some of them donated their projects to independent nonprofit foundations, thus giving up control while effectively inviting their competitors to participate. Consequently, these projects are subject to numerous commercial interests. […]Abstract: As Open Source Software has become nearly ubiquitous, more and more companies have started to open up the code of their products. Even more radical, some of them donated their projects to independent nonprofit foundations, thus giving up control while effectively inviting their competitors to participate. Consequently, these projects are subject to numerous commercial interests. […]