Imagine a world in which HyperCard had been open sourced 20 years ago?

[Andre Garzia]

I don't believe that SF and Freshmeat numbers can really be trusted.
They measure activity based on interaction with their site using some
math. Most OSS software also have their own page with mirrors and the
like, this traffic and interaction is not measured by SF or Freshmeat.

I think that the amount of unhealthy OSS project must be way beyond
1%. Like 70% or something like that, I keep seeing people forking
projects and creating little projects without a clue of what it takes
to manage a sucessful open project. From silly stuff like "a project
to bring true artificial inteligence to computers" done by hack4rs
that learn from computers by watching the pirates of sillicon valley
replays to unmeasurable amount of linux distros trying to be the next
redhat or ubuntu, just go to distrowatch and check how many linux
distros are nothing but debian with a new backdrop and boot screen.

Good OSS is here to solve a problem. Usually a problem that is not
being solved by the mainstream players. The good ones are also managed
like a "enterprise", so again, what is the problem that an OSS RunRev
would solve? I see nothing wrong right now.

On 6/8/07, David Bovill <david at openpartnership.net> wrote:
> Wow! Thaks for the post Chipp - always good to have some hard facts.
>
> 2000 out of *150,114* projects - really is that all?  That makes 2/150 - or
> less that 1% of projects! I would have guessed it as more like 20%
>
> How many non-open source software projects end up in the scrap heap - more
> of less than 1%?
>
>
> On 08/06/07, Chipp Walters <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/7/07, Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The world is just not the way you are suggesting it is, and it is so
> > > obviously
> > > not that way, that there is little point in asserting it is.
> >
> >
> > A quick  search at sourceforge shows close to 2000 projects with less than
> > 10% activity. So, it appears at least a healthy part of Open Source
> > projects
> > may end up exactly as Paul is suggesting.
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