[ Thanks to smk for this link.
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“Mobile platforms like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s
Android have become a key focus for open source developers. And the
trend is only increasing, though new research has found that over
the course of the last year, there has been a shift in which mobile
platform has the most open source development activity.“A new study by Black Duck Software found that at the end of
2009, there were 224 new open source software projects on Google’s
Android operating system, bringing its total to 357 open source
projects in all. That’s enough to leapfrog Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL)
iPhone to take the top spot in the number of open source projects
being developed on either platform.‘Android’s 2009 open source software tally represents a 168
percent gain over the number of projects reported for it in
2008.”