Microsoft Releases Its Deep Learning Toolkit On GitHub (microsoft.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 25, 2016 @06:03AM from the more-deep-learning-software-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is moving its machine learning Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) from its own hosting site, CodePlex, to GitHub. They're also putting it under the MIT open source license. The move marks an effort to make it easier for developers to collaborate on building their own deep learning applications using the CNTK. Under the CodePlex license, access was restricted to academics only, and it was wholly targeted to that audience. Now that it's opening the project to everyone, Microsoft hopes to attract a greater number of developers, and a wider variety as well. This follows similar releases from Google and Baidu.

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More developers? by darthsilun · 2016-01-25 06:24 · Score: 1, Interesting

..., Microsoft hopes to attract a greater number of developers, and a wider variety as well.
Good luck. I've worked – professionally, both directly and indirectly – on a couple different open source projects. They all had (and still have) lots of users.
But growing the list of active developers from outside the core cadre of devs? Next to impossible.
If they're open sourcing it to get more active development, I expect they've got a tough row to hoe.
I'm more inclined to think they're just not funding development and this is a desperation move.