On 04/06/2018 17:52, KatolaZ wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 05:40:15PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote: >> >> I can't see that it would be in Microsoft's interest to kill open source. >> >> Aren't they the largest single contributor on GitHub? >> > No, they just own the largest corporate account on github. This does > not mean that all the stuff they put there is public, or free > software. > > Al always, their marketing has been very effective, apparently.
I don't want to get into an argument about this as I am not exactly a fan of Microsoft but... My statement that MS were the largest single contributor on GitHub comes from GitHub's own statistics specifically for *open source* contributions (admittedly dating from 2016). Source: http://businessinsider.com/microsoft-github-open-source-2016-9 'Microsoft just edged out Facebook and proved that it's changed in an important way'. -- Mark Rousell
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