Tech giants are now more committed to open source software than ever before, with "big tech" contributions to GitHub quadrupling from six years ago, according to new research.
An Aiven report found that Google appears to be the leading driver of industry engagement in open source, with monthly engagements up 21% year-over-year in July 2022.
The research suggests that Google has overtaken Microsoft in its number of active GitHub contributors for the first time in about three years, with 4 contributors compared to Microsoft's 643, and furthermore, Google is expected to overtake Microsoft in its number of monthly commits for the will prevail. nunca en los próximos seis meses.
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Despite incredible growth, Amazon still lags behind Google; which uses C++, Java, and C. Amazon uses the equally compatible Python, Java, and TypeScript languages. Microsoft, a longtime open source industry leader, is moving more towards its own Powershell and C# programming languages, with more than a third of its open source software coders choosing one of these two.
Overall, the number of active Amazon, Microsoft, and Google contributors on GitHub increased from 2654 in May 2016 to 10 in the same period in 549.
Aiven co-founder Heikki Nousiainen says the company's research "shows that hyperscalers bring more resources to open source," which he says is "great news."
He continues: “As a community, open source software needs this kind of commitment from Big Tech to ensure that important projects are kept and that vulnerabilities like Log4Shell don't happen again. More than that, it's a better way to write clean, transparent, and secure code.
Nousiainen believes that from his company's research we can infer a positive outlook for open source software. Continued commitment to innovation should "benefit all of us", with big business leading the way for small business.