On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 06:06:33PM +0100, Mark Rousell wrote: [cut]
> > 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'. > You've been confused by marketing, again. By reading through the very same source used by the article you are citing with an unbiased eye, it becomes clear that what is happening is that Microsoft's vscode repository (yes, just *one* repository) is the first GitHub repository for number of contributors: https://octoverse.github.com/ This is what the journalist "mis-read" and "mis-cited" in the article you mentioned. And this does not make MS the largest single contributor to GitHub, only the project initiator who got the largest number of contributors (about 15000) to one of its projects. And the contributions to that repo belong to the 15000 contributors, not to Microsoft (unless the journalist is implying that most of those 15000 contributors are Microsoft employees themselves, which wouldn't be surprising at all). Then there are about 25.000.000 other active repositories and about 26.000.000 more active users on GitHub. Biased marketing has a strange way of putting numbers together, indeed... HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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