[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] About KDE
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-12-12 18:18:42
Message-ID: 200712121118.43299.aseigo () kde ! org
[Download RAW message or body]

[Attachment #2 (multipart/signed)]


On Wednesday 12 December 2007, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> Are we still (as I think we once were) the largest open-source project
> in the world?  (Maybe not in terms of developers...OpenOffice and/or
> Mozilla SomethingAnimal probably takes that crown...but what about in,
> say Lines of Code?) 

OOo and Mozilla have far fewer developers. the linux kernel has more, though. 
our codebase is big, but there are bigger (OOo being one example). it would 
be interesting to see some metrics though; we'd certainly come out in the top 
1% on any of these metrics.

> I don't know if we are still the most popular (thanks, Ubuntu).

popularity is a measure that depends on your sample group. brittany spears may 
not be overly popular with women in their 50s, but she probably does pretty 
well with teen age girls. ;) ubunty has helped restore parity in a certain 
segment of the linux using populace; unfortunately for us it's one of the 
only easily visible segments.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech

[Attachment #5 (application/pgp-signature)]

_______________________________________________
This message is from the kde-promo mailing list.

Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on \
or temporarily stop your subscription.



[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]