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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:56% use OSS software... by ackdesha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I agree. I spend more and more time writing long emails to my "business" friends, explaining Free Software, Open-Source, BSD, Sun, RMS, Hackers, hackers, blah blah. Not only is there a lot of misinformation and FUD floating around, there is just a lot of ignorance and an attitude only concerned with profit, speed to market, and results. It will be really interesting to see the generation that grew up warez and freeware begin to start running major corporations.