Bad news: Free software project contributions tumbling

Peak everything seems to include peak free software: Ohloh’s chart of lines of code contributed to free software projects (split by programming language) mirrors the charts for pretty much everything else these days (except gold, hurrah!)

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January 27, 2009 |

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2 Responses to “Bad news: Free software project contributions tumbling”

  1. Benjamin Mako Hill on January 27th, 2009 22:54

    I don’t see a convincing mechanism. It seems more likely to me to that they lost a data source (e.g., somebody got protective). It’s worth checking out, though.

  2. Dave on January 28th, 2009 15:45

    I’ve posted a forum topic about this at

    https://www.ohloh.net/forums/8/topics/3033

    to find out :)

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