{"id":179882,"date":"2016-09-16T08:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T06:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=179882"},"modified":"2016-09-16T08:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T06:59:44","slug":"more-microsoft-open-source-contributors-on-github-than-facebook-or-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/179882-more-microsoft-open-source-contributors-on-github-than-facebook-or-google.html","title":{"rendered":"More Microsoft open source contributors on Github than Facebook or Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/octoverse.github.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Github&#8217;s latest data<\/a><\/strong> shows that Microsoft has more contributors to its open source projects than Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n<p>Of the\u00a0more than\u00a05.8 million active users on\u00a0Github\u00a0over the past 12 months, over 16,000 were contributing to Microsoft projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/microsoft\/2016\/09\/15\/in-your-face-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Next Web reported<\/a><\/strong> that\u00a0Microsoft began with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/114155-microsoft-net-goes-open-source-cross-platform.html\">open sourcing<\/a><\/strong> of its\u00a0.NET framework.\u00a0Since then, the project has attracted many developers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big .NET project has more people outside of Microsoft contributing to it than people who work at Microsoft,&#8221; Github CEO\u00a0Chris Wanstrath <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/09\/14\/github-chris-wanstrath-microsoft-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\">told Fortune<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After putting\u00a0the source code of its\u00a0development framework on Github, Microsoft also open sourced several other projects, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chakra JavaScript engine<\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio&#8217;s MSBuild compiling engine<\/li>\n<li>Computational Networks Toolkit for deep learning applications<\/li>\n<li>Xamarin tool for building cross-platform apps<\/li>\n<li>PowerShell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Microsoft<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/179828-microsoft-edge-beats-chrome-and-firefox-in-battery-performance.html\"><strong>Microsoft Edge beats Chrome and Firefox in battery performance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/179366-microsoft-to-kill-lumia-smartphone-brand-report.html\"><strong>Microsoft to kill Lumia smartphone brand: Report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/177207-the-crazy-price-of-the-microsoft-surface-pro-4-in-south-africa.html\"><strong>The crazy price of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 in South Africa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174212-microsoft-brings-chakracore-to-linux-and-os-x.html\"><strong>Microsoft brings ChakraCore to Linux and OS X<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/177547-top-windows-10-anniversary-update-tips.html\"><strong>Top Windows 10 Anniversary Update tips<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Github&#8217;s latest data shows that Microsoft has more contributors to its open source projects than Facebook and Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,161,167,123,7679],"class_list":["post-179882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-open-source-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179886,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179882\/revisions\/179886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}