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ZDNet UK: Open Source ‘Split By Digital Divide’

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 17, 2006

“Few programmers in developing countries get involved in the
mainstream development of open source software, leading to a
digital divide within open source projects, a researcher from the
United Nations University (UNU) claimed on Thursday.

“Researchers compared the number of open source mailing list
postings from different countries with the Internet penetration of
each country. When ordered by this metric, Western Europe came out
on top…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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