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[News] Open Source = Hidden Growth

Open access and open source intersect in Public Knowledge Project

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| Like most open source projects, PKP keeps no formal record of users.
| However, Smecher estimates that Open Journal Systems alone has more
| than a thousand installations worldwide.
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/22213

It is no surprise that Open Source projects which are downloaded millions of
times cannot count their users. The same rules apply to Linux.


Related:

Too late to discredit open source, advocates say

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| "It's too late," exclaimed Winston Damarillo, founder and
| chairman of software development firm Exist Global, in an
| interview with Computerworld Philippines. "Open source
| is all over the place."
| 
| [...]
| 
| Anson Uy, president of Touch Solutions (a Red Hat Linux company),
| earlier on broke the news to Computerworld Philippines about the
| alleged "funded missions" by some software firms to discredit open
| source, although he did not identify any company.
| 
| Anson revealed among the top three actions against FOSS are being
| done through "sponsored studies, piracy of open source developers,
| and bold press releases."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/030607-too-late-to-discredit-open.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2bj969

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