In some ways, GitHub is similar to other social networks online, Friedman said. But it differs in the sense that they're gathered around a specific task: the creation of vital, useful software.
"This is obviously something going on where there are more developers actually showing up, actually engaging with code, actually contributing, than we know," Friedman said. "There's this sort of invisible mass of developers out there doing work."
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