open source

My second through fifth contributions to Xamarin Forms

Oliver Brown
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Xamarin Forms took part in Hacktoberfest, an effort to increase contributions to open source.

Like my previous contributions, three quarters of my PRs were targeting macOS. The main reason is the changes were straightforward (which makes it more disappointing how long some of the issues have been around).

I would like to say I wasn’t doing it for the t-shirt, but that wouldn’t really be true. I wouldn’t do it just for stickers though.

So Java is open source

Oliver Brown
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It’s not really something I personally care about but I figured I couldn’t claim to be a technology blog without mentioning that Sun have open sourced Java.