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  1. Almost Two-Thirds of Software Companies Contributing To Open Source, Says Survey (networkworld.com)

    News · Opensource · · posted by msmash · from the open-source-ftw dept. · 30 comments
    Reader alphadogg writes: Open source's march toward preeminence in business software continued over the past year, according to a survey released by open source management provider Black Duck Software and venture capital firm North Bridge. Roughly two-thirds of respondents to the survey -- which was administered online and drew 1,300 respondents -- said that their companies encouraged developers to contribute to open-source projects, and a similar proportion said that they were actively engaged in doing so already. That's a 5% increase from the previous year's survey.

  2. Android Gathers Steam Among Open Source Developers

    Mobile · · posted by CmdrTaco · from the gonna-be-huge-they-figure dept. · 176 comments
    svonkie writes "Despite launching on the T-Mobile G1 with little mainstream fanfare, Google Inc.'s Android OS appears to have gained strong interest in the open source development community. According to a survey of Black Duck Software's Knowledge Base, Apple Inc.'s iPhone led the industry with 266 open source project releases during 2008, while Android followed in second place with 191 releases. Black Duck compiled the data after scouring through over 185,000 of open source projects across 4,000 Internet sites."