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Microsoft may be the world’s largest open source contributor, but developers don’t care–yet

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Matt Asay
Nov 6, 2018

Microsoft is the world’s biggest open source contributor, at least, as measured by the number of employees actively contributing to open source projects on GitHub. In fact, Microsoft has double the number of open source contributors as the second most active contributor, Google. Despite this, developer respondents to DigitalOcean’s most recent survey found Google, not Microsoft, as twice as friendly to open source. What gives?
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