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Large Open-Source Based Web Sites?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-your-information dept.

nellardo asks: "I know that, these days, most web sites are running on Apache and many are running on Linux or some flavor of BSD as well. But what are the biggest sites that go beyond that? We've talked about open-source application servers and the like here before, but where are these being used? Why do I ask? Well, duh, I'm trying to convince management :-) Seriously, CMP uses Mason and Slashdot uses Slashcode, but what are some of the other large ones?"

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  1. some slashcode sites by grammar+nazi · · Score: 3
    I don't know of any other open-sourced sites (this is the point of your post). I don't think that website code is as likely to be under the GPL because it typically isn't distributed. If someone comes up with good code, the don't distribute it, they use it on their own website.

    Anyone with a little perl knowledge can go a long way towards making a slashcode site into a customer support, file download, or of course a news and events website.

    Anyways, here's the slashsites in case anyone is interested.

    Obtained from Slashcode
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    Keeping /. free of grammatical errors for ~5 years.