Who made Gentoo Linux, and when? A commit analysis
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| Since LWN has published statistics on who wrote the Linux kernel, I thought
| readers might also be interested in who's writing other major open-source
| projects. I recently obtained the entire CVS repository history for Gentoo
| Linux, courtesy of Robin Johnson <robbat2 -AT- gentoo -dot- org>.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/253875/
Some numbers about Debian’s history
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| There’s an interesting article on LWN.net about Gentoo: Who made Gentoo
| Linux, and when? A commit analysis
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| I was wondering how Debian compared, so I made some stats using the
| debian-devel-changes archives.
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http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=260
Related:
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
Open source to hit $22 billion by 2010. What this means for Red Hat and Novell
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| Interestingly, this number jumps to $41 billion if you add in the $19 billion
| that enterprises will invest in internal open-source development instead of
| wasting it on proprietary software licenses, according to Morgan Stanley...
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9806036-16.html?tag=cnetfd.blogs.item
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