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Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the this-story-not-yet-licensed dept.

CBR is reporting that open source use in the workplace is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate. Up 26% since last year, businesses are using 94 different open source tools to get the job done. "[OpenLogic's] breakdown of licenses for the top 25 packages found that Apache, not the GPL, is the most common license. 62% of the packages use Apache, 27% use some variant of GPL and 4% each use BSD, CPL, Eclipse, MPL and Perl licenses (since packages may be released under two or more licenses, percentages total to more than 100%).

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  1. Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year by Hatta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um, 26% of what?

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    1. Re:Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 2, Funny

      If there's one thing that infuriates me here, its Prescriptivist Slashdot Orthography Nazis telling us how we must spell people's names.

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  2. Re:Licence use by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    This outburst of cynicism might indicate that you've never tried Web Services.

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