Thursday 15 September 2016
Over the past couple of years, Microsoft has, under the reign of CEO Satya Nadella, embraced open source like never before. It’s a remarkable shift for the Redmond giant, which traditionally kept its trade secrets and powerful technologies behind closed doors. One major sign of that is new data from GitHub, which is home to some of the Web’s biggest collaborative code projects. The company, which counted more than 5.8 million active users on its platform over the past 12 months, noted that Microsoft topped the list of organizations with the most open source contributors. With 16,419 contributors, Microsoft beat…
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