I find this chart surprising in several ways (data from ohloh):

I find this chart surprising in several ways (data from ohloh):

1) I didn’t expect to see Microsoft celebrating Emacs, Linux, Git and Java

2) The chart shows C# dating back to 1997. Surely that must be including J# or J++? C# was first released in 2002, according to wikipedia.

3) 2002? Wow, I didn’t realize C#’s 1.0 release was that long ago already.

4) Emacs LISP was a huge fraction of open source in ’93? Surely that’s an artifact of the definition of “open source”

5) In my opinion, HTML doesn’t count as code. It’s data.

Originally shared by Microsoft Developer

This month marks 20 years of open source code: http://spr.ly/6261w7Od