Germany leads in Open Source Development

[Kristian Köhntopp <kk@netuse.de>]

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001101S0016

Germany Leads In Open-Source Development
(11/01/00, 7:54 p.m. ET) By Stuart Glascock, TechWeb News 

SEATTLE -- Paul Jones, director of the Linux
Documentation Project, had a hunch about where to find
the largest concentration of contributors to the
open-source software development, but little hard data
existed about membership in collaborative open source
communities. 

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"We knew the Germans were really active, but we didn't
know how active," Jones said. "We were really knocked
out when we saw the Germans were the second largest
contributors." 

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"The other thing we did is combined all the EU and
treated it like one country," he said. "It turns out it would
be greater than all the dot-coms." 

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"If you are a German-speaking engineer, the only way
you can play in software and have impact is in open
source," he said. "Also there are countries that recognize
the value of community. " 
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