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Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by GordonS »

dx034 wrote: post #21
executesorder66 wrote: post #12

It seems to me like they are only open sourcing the products they wish more people are using, and not their actually useful products like MSOffice and the Windows OS. Edit: to be clear, I know it is in their best interest not to open source those products, because that's where most of their money comes from. But it really looks to me like the want to flood the market with random open source stuff, so that they seem m…

VSCode is a great contribution and in some areas a valid alternative to Visual Studio.

Agreed - I have access to Visual Studio at work, but for some projects I've lately been using VSCode. It's super fast and has most of the features I need. Visual Studio is of course more fully featured, but I don't always need everything it has, and god it is SLOW!

Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by parennoob »

vthallam wrote: post #24

Microsoft is definitely trying to change its perception among the people, from hardcore closed box to trying to be the typical silicon valley company which opensources time to time to entice engineers working for them and yeah, greater good of the community. But, as you see if you add Angular and Google's contributions, Google leads the list by a margin. So this looks more like a PR exercise and since when did we sta…

> when did we start taking BI articles on tech seriously(no offence to any readers)

None taken, BI articles are often poorly researched and written from a Wikipedia search knowledge level.

Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by sdesol »

executesorder66 wrote: post #12

It seems to me like they are only open sourcing the products they wish more people are using, and not their actually useful products like MSOffice and the Windows OS. Edit: to be clear, I know it is in their best interest not to open source those products, because that's where most of their money comes from. But it really looks to me like the want to flood the market with random open source stuff, so that they seem m…

> But in reality they are not actually contributing anything very useful to the community

Have you looked at https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor

They have examples of what it can do at

https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

It literally took me a couple of days to integrate their diff viewer into my product. If you go to

966c0823e1d6fb13d4da845fb459d86c0173482a" rel="nofollow">http://bitbucket-server-demo.gitsense.com/plugins/servlet/gi...

and click on the last tab (077be8bd -> 966c0823) and click on any of the files in the tab, you can see the diff editor in action. I don't know how much money was spent in developing the editor, but it's FREE for use by the community.

Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by belorn »

douche wrote: post #19
chha wrote: post #2

This is quite an improvement from the olden days when a certain Microsoft executive described the GPL as a cancer, and open source in general as a thing to avoid

If you're trying to write commercial software and make money off of it, the GPL is a cancer. MIT or the MS-PL is much more practical.

"If you are a software repository, proprietary license is toxic waste."

"If you write software, proprietary content is a time bomb waiting to kill everyone involved."

Does this kind of language really help anyone? Do you want to be called a toxic waste distributor? Do you like to plant bombs in peoples projects, killing them?

Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by rmc »

aries1980 wrote: post #8

AFAIK Angular is part of Google. But a quite decent improvement from the era when the company bribed government officials to purchase bulk licences for pupils and govn't, distorting the job market. This is a less harmful Microsoft than it was 5-10-20 years ago.

> a quite decent improvement from the era when

Or the era of "Linux is a cancer"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_c...

Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by Illniyar »

How is that calculated?

I mean Microsoft only has 2561 members (https://github.com/orgs/Microsoft/people) , so it isn't how many microsoft members contribute to open source.

Is it how many contributors their open source projects have? nope, FontAwesome has maybe 100 contributors to all of it's 5 projects but it's listed as having 9000+ contributors.

From what I can gather it's mostly based on the number of people that forked one of their projects (with some padding, maybe by the number of contributors to forks of the project? I have no idea)

This doesn't seem like a metric that is more meaningful then just the number of stars a repository has.

Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by douche »

syshum wrote: post #27
douche wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're trying to write commercial software and make money off of it, the GPL is a cancer. MIT or the MS-PL is much more practical.

To translate if you are attempting to exploit other peoples code with out giving anything back to the people that created the code then GPL is a cancer >MIT or the MS-PL is much more practical. This depends on the project I normally license my libraries, code I intend to be included in other software under BSD or MIT, but full developed software that is intended to be used as is gets GPL.

Thanks for putting words in my mouth. How many people would have used jQuery, if it was GPL? Full-on GPL taints your software, such that you have to be extremely careful not to use any libraries that are GPL'd if you want to release it under any other sort of license. Sure, you can get exemptions, but can you imagine the clusterfuck if, say, the NPM community defaulted to using GPL? Trying to trace back and make arrangements with the owners of thousands of tiny libraries would be insane.

Re: Microsoft is now the leading company for open source contributions on GitHub

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Post by bad_user »

rmc wrote: post #36
aries1980 wrote: post #8

AFAIK Angular is part of Google. But a quite decent improvement from the era when the company bribed government officials to purchase bulk licences for pupils and govn't, distorting the job market. This is a less harmful Microsoft than it was 5-10-20 years ago.

> a quite decent improvement from the era when Or the era of "Linux is a cancer" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_c...

Yeah, now they're just engaging in racketeering against Linux and Android using their patents.
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