Status quo of open source development in China
　　In recent years, open source software, due to great application potential, has been taking increasing share in Chinese market and facilitated development and expansion of Chinese open source movement; Chinese market is becoming a big stage for competition of global open source software and proprietary business software.
　　Chinese open source movement has transited from the initial starting period into the gradually mature growth period. Some unstable and immature characteristics showing in the initially starting period of the open source movement are constantly being eliminated or transformed during growth of such movement towards mature.
China is starting to shift to a development pattern characteristic of participation in opening-up of open source community through getting out of the conventional enclosed one in an enterprise. At present, China is expanding the size of Volunteers team participating in international community development and also gradually transforming from pure “open source consumer” of international open source community into a community developer.
　　The situation that individual enterprises breach open source agreement (such as GPL) has been corrected gradually; the tendency featured by paying no attention to engineering experience and engineering innovation during the development of open source software is being changed; emphasis has been attached on quality testing certification conducted by collaborative partners (IHVs, ISVs and SIs) on open source products developed on their own.
　　Chinese open source movement is stepping from the stage of learning and imitation into the development stage of innovation and application, thus forming a lot of internationally accepted emerging open source enterprises.
　　The movement has transited from the single Linux industry, into the stage featured by overall development of the open source industry.

　　2007 News Review: China Open Source Memorabilia

Vigorous Chinese open source community
　　Chinese open source community, as an important section in open source movement, largely reflects actual situation of open source movement through its development status.
　　There are many source communities in China. Compared with international open source communities, domestic communities can better understand actual demands of Chinese users and more quickly solve any problem in Chinese application. Below are some representative communities:
1、CoSoft (Cosoft.org.cn)
　　Since establishment and operation in February 2000, Cosoft has, on one hand sufficiently come into open source software developed at the cost of hundreds of billion US dollars in other countries, and on the other hand, organized R&D and integration in software not available yet and in urgent need with National 863 Program as strategic orientation, and then opened up in accordance with alliance license rules. Up to December 2007, there are 1474 projects and 49,565 registered members at Cosoft.org.cn.
2、Wuhan Free Software Association (open source Linux)
　　Established on June 23, 1998, it is one of the earliest free software communities and organizations. It is committed to building of open source collaboration development platform and owns GRO.clinux.org which is also one of largest collaborative development of open source software. Currently it has nearly 800 open resource projects and almost 15,000 registered development users.
3、Open Source Community of China, COC
　　Since its establishment, it has kept dedicating to popularization and promotion of knowledge on open source software with Linux as the typical example so as to allow more people to know, contact, participate in and use open source. The community provides such resources as forum, collaborative development, knowledge base and resource base. According to latest statistics, there are 22,122 kinds of software in total with total download frequency of over 340,000.
4、LUPA
　　LUPA is shorted for Leadership of Open Source University Promotion Alliance, established in Hangzhou city on June 12 2005. LUPA is the explorer and practitioner in Chinese open source movement, and also the creator of “Chinese Open Source Mode”. Currently, over 300 universities and colleges including Tsinghua University, Peking University and Zhejiang University have joined the LUPA, thus causing it to be a domestic open source society with the largest scale, most resources of universities and colleges and the widest influence. Up to December 2007, it has 110,792 registered users.
5、ChinaUnix.net
　　ChinaUnix.net (hereinafter referred to as CU) is an open source technology community website mainly discussing Linux/Unix-like operating system, software development technology, database technology and network application technology. Established in 2001, CU has become the largest and most popular Chinese website of Linux/Unix technology today. Up to December 2007, there are over 7,000,000 posts and more than 650,000 registered members in total. In average, there are over 3,000 daily online users in communication with each others; average daily PageView reaches nearly 3,000,000; number of independently accessed IPs exceeds 200,000.
6、LinuxEden
　　LinuxEden is one of most influential vertical interactive portals for Linux free software in China. Since establishment in 2000, it has dedicated itself to promulgation of information on free software and open source. Till now, it has created 7 professional channels and 28 professional forum sections, offering an open source information web platform combining with information, data and interaction. At present, LinuxEden has over 200,000 registered users.
7、Matrix
　　A computer open source technology organization with a lot of original contents, mainly including Java basics, programming, tools and application service, J2EE and J2ME technology, design pattern, etc, with a view to allowing more and more people to progress. Current registered users: over 150,000.
8、PHPChina
　　PHPChina is a PHP-centered open source technology website and communication community specifically for software developers and program fans. Up to December 2007, there are over 40,000 topics and over 320,000 posts at http://bbs.phpchina.com/ with registered users of nearly 50,000.
9、Huihoo (http://www.huihoo.com/)
　　Established in September 2001, Huihoo has become a very authoritative site in the domestic middleware industry and it is committed to research of enterprise computation including CORBA, J2EE, Web Services, EAI, etc, and organizing development of open source middleware (huihoo.org) including Orbas, JFox, OpenWeb and Link3.
10、China Java World (chinajavaworld.com)
　　This community is established specifically for discussion and research of JAVA open source items, almost including all popular open source technologies. Daily online users are over 3,000.
11、EasyWine forum
　　EasyWine is the first forum discussing Wine simulation application technology in China. It enables Windows programs to be run in Linux, newcomers to more easily transit from Windows into enriched Linux application software and entertainment games. Registered users are over 10,000.
12、OpenDesktop.net
　　OpenDesktop.net is a large domestic open source community mainly focusing on technology development and is committed to develop a commercial desktop Linux operating system highly compatible with Windows and suitable for business purposes of government and enterprise, called OpenDesktop.