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56.2% of Software Developers use Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-more-probably-don't-realize-they-do dept.

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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  1. Re:Low? by Hope+Thelps · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not about having or using open sourced applications. It's about incorporating open sourced modules in their own projects.

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    To summarise the summary of the summary: people are a problem. ~ h2g2
  2. Re:This is why the BSD license is good... by torstenvl · · Score: 3, Informative

    I usually don't respond to AC trolls, but I'd like to point out that the vast majority of files SCO pointed out as "proof" of infringement were BSD-licensed. So those stacks and stacks of listings, that preponderance of code? Yeah. That represents a *portion* of BSD-licensed contribution to the GPL community. Think about it.