I know that the android plattform is open source. What I am interested in is the share of open source Android apps, thus developers that realease their own apps under a open source license.
Does anybody have an idea, how to get this information?
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A:
This post can give you a fair idea of the Open Source Software Projects of android
New Total OSS
Projects Mobile Growth
OSS Projects Associated with a Platform 2009 Projects '08-'09
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Android 224 357 168%
iPhone 76 252 43%
Windows Mobile 75 248 43%
Symbian 17 140 14%
Palm 10 527 2%
Maemo 9 27 50%
BlackBerry 4 39 11%
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Sub Total 415 1590 35%
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Other OSS Mobile Projects 488 1617 43%
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Total 903 3207 39%
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This table has been taken from here
This maybe worth reading too.
You can browse loads of Open Source Android Projects here
primalpop
2010-05-31 07:09:43