Questions tagged [statistics]

Is there data on the frequency of Open Source License type by software industry type (eg. video editing, malware scanning, word processing, cryptocurrency, VPN, file encryption, etc)? Data for any and all types of Open Source Licenses would interest…

Are there any rough estimates of the total number of person-hours that have been spent on writing FLOSS software? (paid and volunteer)

There are possibly millions of worldwide OSS committers indepdently from the fact how the contributions are related to their employment. Is the a way to know how do they are spread across the world, and if this is too broad, how many are in Germany?

Open Hub provides statistics on a number of open source projects. Some of this data is categorized by programming language. How do they identify the programming languages in the source code? Is is by examining the content of the files, by file type…