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Linux Open Source Community (situation analysis)
Stakeholder Analysis
Figure 1 contains an analysis of the geographic stakeholder location of all developers listed in the Credits File. There are 412 developers listed in the file, which is representative of the "very active" developer community. Figure 2 show the geographic location of Linux users when registering their Linux installation. The process of registering is voluntary. With around 150000 registrations the geographic distribution is at least indicative.