Saturday, October 15, 2005

Open source boom

A little factoid that many may not be aware of is that despite our massive IT balance of trade deficit, this country is the place to be when it comes to open source development. Believe it or not, Australia has more open source developers per head of capita than anywhere else.
Open source development projects with esoteric sounding names such as
Samba,
Mambo,
Squid,
Lams and Moodle,
plus better-known projects such as Apache,
OpenOffice.org,
Gnome,
KDE,
and MySQL,
have Australian developers in prominent roles.

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