Open Source Factoid
June 20, 2010
Short honk: Navigate to “Being Acquired Is the Best Thing for a FOSS Project.” I was surprised by the factoid I have highlighted in bold in the passage below:
Sourceforge hosts about 7,000 security projects. Daniel says, “From these 7K only 10% will survive; they seem to die quickly.” Security is an area of software development where both open source and proprietary options can co-exist. “I still think open source in the long term will be more secure than closed — people catch bugs all the time.” But he also sees more of the big ones being acquired, or going commercial on their own “to make some kind of money … it’s very hard to be a developer only on the weekends.”
Is this accurate? Not sure. Darned interesting.
Stephen E Arnold, June 20, 2010
Freebie like some software
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