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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:false positive; sourceforge != OSS community by Simon+Kongshoj · · Score: 1, Redundant
    You're right, lots of Sourceforge projects are inactive.

    However, the survey was made with the "top 100 mature" projects on SF, meaning that the lots of dead projects weren't considered at all.

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