I beg you, stop brushing Star! This has nothing to do with "patriotism"!

In recent years, with the strength of several major Internet companies, they have invested in the construction of the cloud computing industry. As an important means to maintain potential customer groups (developers), open source projects are what major cloud computing manufacturers are working hard to do.

In recent years, many really good and seemingly good open source projects have been born. Needless to say, the really excellent ones are those open source projects that are truly and widely used, and today I want to talk about those open source projects that seem to be excellent.

Why are some projects seemingly excellent?

Everyone knows that there is a data that is often mentioned on GitHub, the world's largest open source project hosting platform: Star . Many times, people will use this data to describe the popularity or even excellence of open source projects.

I believe that developers who have worked for a few years must have this feeling. A few years ago, when there was not much open source in China, when judging and selecting open source products based on the number of stars , it was not easy to step on the pit. Most of the time, we can pick the best of the bunch.

But in recent years, with the rise of open source in China, the scale of Star has grown a lot. In the past, thousands of Stars were often good projects, but now they are tens of thousands of Stars. At the same time, judging and selecting open source products based on the number of stars has become less effective.

I believe that the small partners who are concerned about the open source field must have heard about the star brushing incidents of some well-known manufacturers in recent years, right? DD will not go into details here. If you are interested, you can find several things under Baidu.

"Patriotic Package" on Taobao

In many cases, since the management of open source projects needs to be quantified, many organizations will use the indicators used to judge the quality of projects in the past as KPIs for project assessment. Therefore, pursuing the growth of Star has become the data that every open source project maintenance team pays attention to every day. How to obtain the growth of Star has become one of their needs.

If there is a demand, there is a sale!

The largest e-commerce platform in China, there are many merchants who professionally brush data on a treasure. For example, in the group ( click to add group ), I saw a friend share such a hotly discussed product: GitHub Star Patriotic Package

Within the same store, depending on the amount of data, there are sister packages with different names, such as: Friendly Package, Wealth Package, Harmony Package, etc.

In fact, I believe that everyone is used to brushing Star itself, and they often complain about the domestic open source data. But now, some businesses have directly labeled this behavior as "patriotic". Is this behavior unnecessary?

Serving major factories for 13 years

Click on the product details page of this "patriotic package", and the description of the baby is even more frustrating:

This studio has been in business for 13 years! And it serves major leading manufacturers. Speaking of which, have you taken your seat?

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