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Addendum to Total Growth of Open Source Paper

March 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Based on multiple requests, for the Total Growth of Open Source paper, we are providing a table of doubling times for the exponential models as well as semi-log scale graphs of the growth curves.

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Table 1: Doubling times for the growth curves

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Figure 1: Semi-log scale graph of source lines of code added (Approach 1)

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Figure 2: Semi-log scale graph of source lines of code added (Approach 2)

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Figure 3: Semi-log scale graph of total source lines of code (both approaches)

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Figure 4: Semi-log scale graph of number of open source projects added

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Figure 5: Semi-log scale graph of total number of open source projects

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  • 1 Wächst Freie Software exponentiell? — keimform.de // Apr 30, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    [...] grafische Darstellung der Messwerte zeigt eine erhebliche Streuung, und in der halblogarithmischen Darstellung erkennt man, dass statt einer lineare Steigung (=exponentielles Wachstum) eine Kurve eher eine [...]

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