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Microsoft Has More Open Source Contributors On GitHub Than Facebook and Google (thenextweb.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via The Next Web: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has really embraced open source over the past couple of years. GitHub, a site that is home to a number of the web's biggest collaborative code projects, has counted more than 5.8 million active users on its platform over the past 12 months, and says that Microsoft has the most open source contributors. Microsoft has 16,419 contributors, beating out Facebook's 15,682 contributors, Docker's 14,059 contributors, and Google's 12,140 contributors. The Next Web reports: "Of course, this didn't happen overnight. In October 2014, it open sourced its .NET framework, which is the company's programming infrastructure for building and running apps and services -- a major move towards introducing more developers to its server-side stack. Since then, it's open sourced its Chakra JavaScript engine, Visual Studio's MSBuild compiling engine, the Computational Networks Toolkit for deep learning applications, its Xamarin tool for building cross-platform apps and most recently, PowerShell. It's also worth noting that the company's Visual Studio Code text editor made GitHub's list of repositories with the most contributors. You can check out these lists, as well as other data from GitHub's platform on this page." GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath said in an interview with Fortune, "The big .Net project has more people outside of Microsoft contributing to it than people who work at Microsoft."
That's a BS reasoning and you know it.
Windows is still a stinky proprietary black box.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
If you want an accurate measure of the number of open source contributors, don't limit yourself to github.
But that isnt what they are doing nor what they are claiming to do, it couldn't be much clearer and is written right there in the article title.
So basically BS click bait article.
You just failed to read the title: Microsoft Has More Open Source Contributors On GitHub Than Facebook and Google. Which is the same title as the article which references Github metrics here.
"Sorry Github you can't post your metrics because somebody might report on it and despite them posting an accurate headline there are incompetent people out there like 'slacka' that lack basic reading comprehension and might inadvertantly read your article and infer something else then complain about that inferrence"
Do yourself a favor and read the title, then if it doesn't interest you stop reading and do something else.
No, it isn't. Believe it or not, people shared code before GitHub. They generally hosted it themselves, or used other popular sites like sourceforge. Claiming that one company has more due merely due to GitHub contributors is ridiculously incomplete to the point of uselessness.
GitHub is popular, but there's dozens of other places to host your code. Most developers don't use it.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Say you're a millenial and actually use this github hoping to meet geekchix or fellow Big BangTheory fans or whatever.
In which group are you,
1) the embrace group
2) the extend group, or
3) the extinguish group?
Or did you sign up to be the Bad Example github user guy, always presented in front of the day's training session, to hang his head in shame and remorse, writing I will stop being a bad example 1000 times on the chalkboard somewhere in Redmond?
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What have they ever embraced, extended and extinguished? Java was the only thing they ever applied it to and look at it now. Then some people said they were trying to do it with web standards and in fact they are dropping support for their extensions now because HTML is capable of doing pretty much everything they were designed for.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish is like Year of the Linux Desktop, it's just something out-of-touch people to say to spread FUD. By now the phrases have been so wrong for so long they have lost all meaning. Everytime Microsoft does anything with open source the panicky masses like you run around like headless chickens shouting that the sky is falling...and it never does. How many more times do you have to be wrong?
And no, before you get all redfaced and furious Im not saying microsoft has never done anything bad, I'm saying the continued failed conspiracy theories are getting pretty ridiculous and tiresome.