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Bernard is offline Bernard
2009-08-10 , 15:26
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Do you have any data to support the claim about the # of open source developers?
Personally, I think opensource developers community alone is far from enough to keep a truly mainstream platform afloat.
According to wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appstore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sourceforge

If the iphone is representative of a "large" developer community on a mobile platform and Sourceforge is an indication of the size of the open source initiative:
The apple appstore has 65.000 application, and on Sourceforge 230.000 projects are hosted.
So based on those figures I would say that the open source developer community is a large one compared to mobile platforms.

But maybe you are right and it isn't that large, but it very much depends on what your definition is of an "open source developer", and it is difficult to measure in any case.
Last edited by Bernard; 2009-08-10 at 15:28.