[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/26/2023 6:47 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 2/26/2023 4:30 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, LibreOffice etc. are used
>> by hundreds of thousands or millions of companies
>> world wide. But how many of them could and would
>> take on fixing bugs in the source. I suspect that
>> would be counted in a few thousands.
> 
> My suspicions are no better than yours, but, I'd be surprised if there 
> was even 100.  System type software is different from application software.

Linux in 2019 had 4189 contributors.

PHP GitHub repo has 896 contributors.

LibreOffice GitHub repo has 1152 contributors.

Obviously the number of companies are less
than the number of individual contributors.

But there are some people out there and some
companies with such people.

Still a very small fraction of the entire pool
of software developers as that is being estimated
to be around 25 million.

Arne