Rechtliche und ökonomische Aspekte bei Entwicklung und Betrieb von Open Source Software

Bachelor thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Computer Science - Information Systems, grade: 1,0, University of Ulm (Institute for Applied Information Processing), language: German, abstract: The topic of open source software has long since become an interesting field not only for talented hobby programmers. Well-known companies like IBM, Sun Microsystems or HP are actively involved in the development of open source software by extending their product range with open source software or by releasing source codes of their programs. In turn, more and more private and public organizations, such as Google, BMW, the German Foreign Office or the Bavarian capital Munich, are using open source software and operating systems in various areas of their business processes. Recently, however, headlines such as "Westerwelle buries Linux" or "Munich shows.