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Open-Source Code Base Doubles Every Year

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Matt Asay
Apr 16, 2008

“Statistics like these from a TechSolve researcher have got to
frighten the Proprietary Bloc that persists in believing open
source won’t adversely impact their businesses:

“Based on the models developed for the ‘Exponential Growth of
Open Source’ study we calculated the time required to double the
number of projects and the total open source code…”

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Matt Asay

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