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If you're referring to licenses that - at times intentionally - blur the definition between open source and proprietary, yes. It is not in favor of those licenses. The implicit arg…

This article consists of a few highly selective observations, glued together by make-believe. Open source was the industry default? On what planet? "Team, make everything open sour…

By way of disclosure, I'm the author of the linked piece. That said, having spoken to most of the parties involved prior to their decisions to relicense, I can tell you that invest…

glad to hear you got something out of it

Disclosure: I'm the author. Appreciate the feedback, will keep that in mind in future.

There is not, though we have historical rankings for the top 20 available here: https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2019/03/20/redmonk-top-20-lang...

Ha! We get asked about CSS every time. Our general answer is that we try very hard not to editorialize, and let GitHub’s Linguist make determinations. We do make decisions, but to …

I can understand why people criticize it, but I personally like Fi. The multiple carriers give me coverage in areas I don't expect it like Maine islands or the Sangre de Cristo foo…

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If you can find analogies in which sports teams are willing to use solutions to play with fewer players or practice anything remotely close to loyalty and thus fit within the conte…

Understood. We're always looking for better ways to visualize this data, so we'll bear these comments in mind.

This is more or less our position. COBOL has never been ranked, for example, because COBOL isn't highly visible on GitHub or Stack Overflow. The last time we checked, for example, …

Setting aside the specific Julia functional merit questions, the answer is that in general, no, the difference between 51 and 52 is not particularly significant. That being said, t…

Much of this is attributable to these rankings being counting stats rather than rate states, which makes age an asset. There's a surprising amount of Haskell in existence, but cert…

Dart held static at 37, which leaves it 11 spots behind TypeScript. We have seen very little movement in the language generally, and it hasn't really gotten any notable boosts from…

The rCharts package we're using doesn't handle that, but if there's interest we can look into releasing a larger version.

The reasons you cite are certainly the reasons we found the original analysis by Drew and John compelling. It's not a perfect analysis, in part because there isn't one, but we've f…

RedMonk | Analyst | US-based | Full-time We're a small, developer focused industry analyst firm that researches a variety of infrastructure technologies from hardware to software. …

Disclosure: I wrote the linked piece. When discussing the potential risks of data-oriented models, it's necessary to recognize that all data isn't created equal. Facebook, Google a…

[Disclosure: I'm the author] No argument that up-front, perpetually licensed software is currently a huge, profitable business. Windows and Office alone, as acknowledged, generate …

RedMonk - http://redmonk.com/jobs - Remote or Portland, ME or London, UK Analyst ## Who is RedMonk We're the analyst firm that thinks developers are the most important constituency…

Portland, ME. Several colleges in the area, can rent an apartment in town for http://startupportland.com ), high end craft beer (Allagash, etc) and a great food scene if you're int…

Personally, I enjoy having a repository of my location history that I can browse easily. Where was I on such and such a date? Easily looked up. As for the privacy issues, they are …

I'm in the market for a solution here, but really need one with calendar integration. If I have to go back and forth between the app and my calendar it doesn't save me that much ti…