Z:gnu-www-ja-when free software isnt practically better--c4a85e-Several academic studies of fr/en

Several academic studies of free software hosting sites SourceForge and Savannah have shown what many free software developers who have put a codebase online already know first-hand. The vast majority of free software projects are not particularly collaborative. The median number of contributors to a free software project on SourceForge? One. A lone developer. SourceForge projects at the ninety-fifth percentile by participant size have only five contributors. More than half of these free software projects&mdash;and even most projects that have made several successful releases and been downloaded frequently, are the work of a single developer with little outside help.