The New Stack is developing a methodology for analyzing open source communities. To begin this effort, we decided to look at the composition of several open source projects. In an initial analysis, we’ve learned a bit about the companies and the people who are participating in the development of OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, and other new stack technologies. Some of the initial research can be found in our recent ebook about the container ecosystem, where 50 of the 71 open source projects we cataloged had an identifiable corporate sponsor.
When we looked at the contributors of a few of these projects, we found in many cases, development was led by a single party.
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