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Is Counting Open Source Code Contributions Really Useful?

“If you’re active in the open source world, Ohloh probably knows
you. The Bellevue, Wash., software company has a database of some
70,000 developers working on nearly 11,000 of the world’s major
open source projects.

“After a year of building up its community of open source
developers, Ohloh (whose backers include former Microsoft big wig
Paul Maritz) has begun trying to cash in on a database that
attempts to measure the productivity of open source projects–and
evaluate the developers working on them…”


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