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> MS is one of the biggest open source contributors nowadays. Really? For its size? It seems like Google, Apple, and Facebook are all much more productive in O
by sdhgaiojfsa 8y ago
> MS is one of the biggest open source contributors nowadays.
Really? For its size? It seems like Google, Apple, and Facebook are all much more productive in OSS. The only open source Microsoft product I'm aware of using is VS Code. To my understanding, they haven't open sourced Edge, their JS engine, their compiler, their word processors, or really anything else of note. I guess I can give them a little credit for .NET Core, but would that even have happened of Mono hadn't existed?
- will4274 8y ago> their JS engine https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore > their compiler Microsoft makes half a dozen compilers, for as many languages: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp https://github.com/fsharp/fsharp https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell The only one that I know of that is closed is C++. > anything else of note https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-foundation/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/16/microsoft-joins-the-linux-...
- StudentStuff 8y agoPowerShell is a pile of slightly incompatible versions, you end up with code targeting the oldest version you need (often version 2 for Windows 7).
- sdhgaiojfsa 8y agoI stand corrected, thanks! I still have a sense that they are rather less proportionately open source than those other companies, but less so than before.