TheOpenAnalyst

Over at Forbes.com I spied an article with the intriguing title “The Open-Source Collaboration Gap,” which delves into the whole question of why the vast majority of contributions to open source projects come from individuals and not companies or institutions. Two questions came to my lips: 1) Is that the case? and 2) If so, why?

Question #1 is in fact addressed in the article, based on conversations with folks who ran both commercial projects (Alfresco) and nonprofit ones (Eclipse). Both of them reported that far more individual than institutional users committed changes to their projects.

‘Gap Insurance’ For Open Source | InformationWeek

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