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Interesting tidbit from the folks at Geeknet (They are the owners of  SourceForge, Slashdot and Ohloh). OSS projects hosted on SourceForge are increasingly becoming more platform agnostic. Since early 2005, the percentage of projects that are platform agnostic has increased from approximately 50 percent to nearly 70 percent as of Q3 2009.

Here are some of the numbers:

• Amount of OSS Windows compatible projects has grown from 72 percent in 2005 to 82 percent in 2009. (This is approximately 350,000 of the total 433,000 OSS projects)
• Windows is the only operating system compatible with the top 10 all-time most downloaded projects on SourceForge
• 23 of the top 25 projects run on Windows and 14 of them run only on Windows

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