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GitHub Turns 5 – Open Source Code Rejoices

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SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 11, 2013

When I first started aggressively using open source code , freshmeat and sourceforge.net were typically the first places I’d go to look.

In 2006, Google shook up the open source code repository market with Google Code and I started to find great stuff there.

Today, the VAST majority of all open source code that I seek, use and play with is all found on GitHub.

SMK

Sean Michael Kerner

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