[ Thanks to Matt Asay
for this link. ]
“Krzysztof Klincewicz (Tokyo Institute of Technology; School of
Management, Warsaw University) recently published a great first
attempt at measuring the levels of innovation in open source
projects. ‘First attempt’ because, as Dr. Klincewicz finds, it’s
very difficult to measure what is, and what isn’t, innovative,
especially when so much value is attached to that word (and, hence,
it is used far more than it should be).“His findings? Using a base of the 500 most actively developed
SourceForge projects as his sample (or 3% of overall projects–81%,
or 89,557 registered projects are not active), Klincewicz finds
that open source is not very innovative…”