The State of Open Source
February 13th, 2008
If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you’ll probably remember Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere” they would release quarterly which looked at blogging as a whole and talked about trends and whatever else was relevant in Technorati’s eyes.
Another industry that has been thriving lately is the open source community. With the popularity of free software such as Firefox, Thunderbird, Linux, OpenOffice and the GIMP, it is no surprise that open source is doing quite well and quickly becoming mainstream.
In order to see how far open source has come and to look towards what the next decade holds, Bruce Perens has posted a great read titled The State of Open Source. If you follow the open source movement at all, I recommend you check it out!











I estimate 90% or more of my personal computing is done with Open Source applications and OS. I am a Linux user at home, but when I need to be in Windows I like to use the software suite from PortableApps.com on my 4GB USB Key.
Mike
Dropthemike.com
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Its good to see that Open Source is growing.