The Moore’s Law of open source
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| In proprietary systems code is often tossed out in great handfuls when
| someone finds a better way to go. In open source this code is available for
| re-use, and thus it is re-used.
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| In proprietary systems the amount of resources available for QA and design
| are limited by the balance sheet. In open source they’re not.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2127
Recent:
The Total Growth of Open Source
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| The significance of open source has been continuously increasing over time.
| Our research validates this claim by looking at the total growth of open
| source. Our work shows that the additions to open source projects, the total
| project size (measured in source lines of code), the number of new open
| source projects, and the total number of open source projects are growing at
| an exponential rate.
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| Our results open gates for further research around the growth of open source
| and the acceptance of open source in industry and government. Future research
| should explore questions like what factors are influencing this exponential
| growth, how source code growth relates to the number of engaged software
| developers, and whether or how long open source can sustain this exponential
| growth.
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http://www.riehle.org/publications/2008/the-total-growth-of-open-source/
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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