Topic: Most successful open source project to date?

Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago #18,213

Someone tried to convince me Wordpress is the most successful open source project in history, surpassing even GNU/Linux itself. How true do you supppse that is?

dreamworks !k36EljOEVQ joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 41 minutes later[^] [v] #303,591

sounds about right in numbers of usage

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 38 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #303,602

I think it's fair to say that the kernel is the most successful thing. IT's widely used in many many places, forked quite a lot. Used as base for any other things. And if it counts as open source project, programming languages themselves.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 29 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #303,610

It's sodomy.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #303,612

It's quite sad and even depressing that the linux kernel is the most successful open source project to date.

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Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #303,632

@303,591 (dreamworks !k36EljOEVQ)
let's see those numbers. i'd also like to see the numbers for open office

dreamworks !k36EljOEVQ replied with this 14 years ago, 30 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #303,640

@previous (F)
oh im just speculating

Anonymous F replied with this 14 years ago, 2 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #303,643

@previous (dreamworks !k36EljOEVQ)
do you think open office has a shot of comparing?

squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #303,788

Communist software! All of it! Damn socialists and your freeware!
Support capitalism, fascists!

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 11 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #303,797

@303,632 (F)
As if anyone uses openoffice when MS office is so easilly pirated.

Born this Way !dLadyGAgAA joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 34 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #303,825

OS X

Anonymous C replied with this 14 years ago, 14 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #304,082

@303,788 (squeegee !hbZVTk6JYc)
Richard can explain to you how Linux/GNU is not proper free software. Just saying yo.

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Minichan