by Angela Guess
David Ramel recently reported in ADTmag, “Seeing as how LinkedIn is all in on open source development, the company is a good fit for its new owner, Microsoft, the poster company for born-again open source evangelism. Cases in point: the business-oriented social media site this week open sourced technology for building iOS view layouts, analyzing Big Data and detecting URLs with a Java library. LinkedIn’s commitment to open source is such that it devotes a section of its engineering Web site to the topic, explaining the reasons behind its open source philosophy and the business benefits of contributing open code.”
Ramel continues, “‘Our engineering team has open sourced more than 75 projects spanning many categories, including data, frameworks, system operations, testing and mobile,’ the company says on the site. ‘We believe that open sourcing projects makes our engineers better at what they do best. Engineers grow in their craft by having their work shared with the entire community. Several of our open source projects have gained broad adoption and are now part of the Apache Software Foundation.’ New projects that might see strong adoption and ASF stewardship include: LayoutKit, ‘a fast view layout library for iOS applications’; the updated Gobblin, ‘the open source universal framework for extracting, transforming, and loading Big Data’; and URL-Detector, ‘a Java library to detect and normalize URLs in text’.”
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