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[News] Linux World Diversifies, Apparently Attracts More People

  • Subject: [News] Linux World Diversifies, Apparently Attracts More People
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:49:12 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
OLS closes on a keynote

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| Just a couple of days before this year's Ottawa Linux Symposium, I 
| attended the annual Debian Conference (DebConf) in Edinburgh, Scotland. 
| I saw fewer than five people in common between the two conferences -- 
| a testament to the diversity and number of people involved in the 
| Linux community.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/116206

There was a poorly-researched report which tried to suggest otherwise.


Related:

Linux contributor base broadens

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| With more companies funding Linux work, the core hackers now delegate 
| 70% of the coding
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062807-linux-contributor-base.html


Study: Developers Favor Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| "Regardless of what kind of developer you are, you're still trying to
| make a living, and target the operating system that?s controlling the
| market."
| 
| However, in the most recent survey, the developers' forecast of their
| target platform has changed. For the first time, these developers said
| that in the next 12 to 18 months they expect to be developing more Linux
| apps than Windows apps. 
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3645766


Linux Summit: Forget Microsoft. Let's Get Back To Development

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| "We add 2,000 lines of code a day to the Linux kernel. We work on 
| 2,800 lines of code a day. I've never seen the pace of change that 
| Linux has shown," said kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, citing 
| the accelerated pace on the open source operating system.
|     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199904052

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