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The open source software (OSS) market has experienced a rapid development in recent years. One of the factors contributing to this growth was the emergence of new and improved OSS for a wide range of applications.
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In this dissertation the terms contributor, developer, actor and others are used synonymously to denote people who are active in OSS projects.
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For reasons of legibility it is renounced a gender-specific differentiation as for example ‘his/her’ or ‘he/she’. Terms apply, in terms of equal treatment, for both genders.
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Homscheid, D. (2020). Introduction. In: Firm-Sponsored Developers in Open Source Software Projects. Innovation, Entrepreneurship und Digitalisierung. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-31478-1_1
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