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Business Open Source Use Up 26% in One Year

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. It's the number of free software packages up 26% by clang_jangle · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to TFA it's the number of free software packages that's "up 26%", not business use of free software.

    Bad submitter, bad!!!.
    Bad editors, bad! Bad!

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