Napalm Riot

The Open Source Census is a "... collaborative, global project to count the number of installations for each open source software package ..." in enterprise. After five months of operation, they have only counted around 228,000 open source packages or installations and only about 1,300 machines have actually been scanned. For a project with such an ambitious idea, they haven't gotten particularly far. As a reference, The Linux Counter has 137,350 users and 150,325 machines registered, as well as having Mozilla claim that there are 170 million active Firefox users. To top that off, the Fedora 8 release, with the opt-in Smolt, has a count of 2 million users. The Open Source Census is looking like it's doing even worse when compared against those numbers.

In addition to their apparently lacking count, Microsoft has recently become a sponser of the Open Source Census. Some, like Rodrigues & Urlocker, seem to feel that Microsoft's sponsorship of the project will increase attention and ultimately help the project get an accurate count. Others, like Jay Lyman at The 451 Group, aren't really sure that Microsoft is genuine with its sponsorship of the project (Microsoft's claim that open source has violated over 200 patents, anyone?).

Others that have gotten behind the Open Source Census include Oregon State University's Open Source Lab, ActiveState and EnterpriseDB. The Open Source Census was started by OpenLogic.

Sources:
http://www.infoworld.com/…ource_Census-IDGNS_1.html + http://www.linuxworld.com…onsor-of-open.html?page=1 (same article)
https://www.osscensus.org/
http://ossdiscovery.opens…jectProcess?pageID=khwcRS
http://blog.internetnews.…e-census-is-a-joke-i.html
http://www.infoworld.com/…-demands-royalties_1.html
http://www.openlogic.com/index.php
http://smolts.org/wiki/Main_Page