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Open Source Developed by Individuals, Not Large Groups 270

Posted by timothy from the startling-conclusions dept.
AlainRoy writes "A new article was just published in First Monday, which suggests that most open source projects have rather few developers." He excerpts from the study, done by Sandeep Krishnamurthy: "Based on a study of the top 100 mature products on Sourceforge...most OSS programs are developed by individuals, rather than communities. The median number of developers in the 100 projects I looked at was 4 and the mode was 1."
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  • Re:And isn't it amazing... (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 05, 2002 @04:30PM (#3647987)
    "You know you can turn off the paperclip and smart tabbing and auto number and just about any other "auto" feature you dislike right?"

    You're forgetting that command-line types have trouble navagating menus. They should all learn to use GUIs because it will teach them how computers really work :)

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