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Open Source Developed by Individuals, Not Large Groups

Posted by timothy on from the startling-conclusions dept.

AlainRoy writes "A new article was just published in First Monday, which suggests that most open source projects have rather few developers." He excerpts from the study, done by Sandeep Krishnamurthy: "Based on a study of the top 100 mature products on Sourceforge...most OSS programs are developed by individuals, rather than communities. The median number of developers in the 100 projects I looked at was 4 and the mode was 1."

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  1. Re:first post by Servo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First post AND on topic. That's a first too.

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