Recent blog entries for gnewton

Study: Reduced Open Source developer productivity linked to "restrictive" FLOSS licenses (where "restrictive"=GPL and non-restrictive=BSD)

A study by economists from Tel Aviv University and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) titled "Open source software: Motivation and restrictive licensing"[1] (pre-print) looks at the productivity of developers on Open Source projects and concludes:

"...that the output per contributor in open source projects is much higher when licenses are less restrictive and more commercially oriented."
and observe:
"Projects written for the Linux operating system have lower output per contributor than projects written for other operating systems..."

Not the results I would have expected.

More info & critical examination of the study at my blog Zzzoot. [Sorry, as a new member I can't as yet syndicate my external blog to this blog].

New Advogato Features

New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.

Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.

If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!