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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.

  2. Sloppy Statistics by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.