56.2% of Software Developers use Open Source

cfelde writes " 56.2% of software developers use open source components by ZDNet's ZDNet -- Evans Data has found a rising trend toward including open source modules in software development world. While 38.1% said they used OSS modules in their applications in Spring of 2001, in the most recent survey, 56.2% said they had."

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Someone...finally...got....the...point?!

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John Koenig, principal of Riseforth, a consulting service for software vendors, said many software developers and end users are attracted to a different kind of free. "They have the ability to do what they want with it: Put it anywhere you want, change it if you want -- and sell it if you want, in a lot of cases," he said.

Like, whoa!

The previus step to profit?

[cuerty]

No.. it can't be.

Re:I can feel the heat

[torstenvl]

Yeah, cuz those Bibliography of German Language and Literature at the University Library of Frankfort on the Main folks sure do hate the General Public License. ;-)

Sloppy Statistics

[Waffle Iron]

I'm sick of the media's sloppy reporting of statistics. Things like "56.2% of developers do blah blah blah".

Look, there's no reason to be so fuzzy with the numbers. This survey received exactly 5830 responses, and of those, exactly 3278 developers said that they use OSS. That means that precisely 56.2264150943396226415(0943396226415)... percent of all developers use OSS.

This is a rational number, people; it sure as hell ain't pi. There's no reason to get lazy and muddy the waters with approximations.

Re:Cygwin is the reason.

[Anonymous Coward]

> The company, whom I work for, develops
> and sells closed source software.

Why are you participating in this anti-social system!?

Hoarder!