I remember @joshbressers mentioning 700,000 active open source projects in their podcast.
Out of which 4,000 or so are done under the umbrella of a foundation.
I assume I missed a few, but we are still below 1% of all active projects being done by foundations.
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@bagder That number probably came from the episode with Brian Fox from Sonatype. 700K was the number of malicious packages :)
I like to look at the data from @ecosystems
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@bagder @joshbressers last time I checked, which admittedly was like 10 years ago, Red Hat was shipping something like 7000 software packages in the OS, to say nothing of the 120 or so other […]
I am sure it can be argued that projects within foundations are perhaps more widely used projects, perhaps the more "important" ones by some ways of counting. Still.
I've been pondering about […]
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