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Json.NET is a JSON framework for .NET. It is used to serialize and deserialize .NET objects. E.g. the interface from Github provides data in JSON format. To use the data from Github you need to deserialize it with a JSON component.    Json.NET is free software licensed under the MIT license The development is mainly in C#. The homepage is www.newtonsoft.com/json The development is done on Github. https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json The component can be installed with NuGet. Github shows 74 contributors and in the commit history you find even 85 different names. But essentially Json.NET is a one-man project. It was founded by James Newton-King from New Zealand in 2006 and he runs the project ever since. For a long time he was the only contributor, but in the last few years a small team has emerged. James still has done 87% of all commits, but a least 2-3 developers adding stuff each month. The blue bars in the chart below are the commits from...

Sumatra PDF - PDR Reader SumatraPDF is a compact PDF reader, it can show ePub, mobi, chm and other document formats as well. There is a 32bit and a 64 bit version for Windows. It is free software licensed under GNU GPL v3. The development is mainly in C++. The homepage is sumatrapdfreader.org SumatraPDF can be used as portable application. There is a version for PortableApps. https://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable The development started in 2006 with version 0.1. The latest release is 3.1.2 from Aug 2016. In total 43 releases have been published. This is an enormous achievement in 11 years. But the last release Sumatra Commits Sumatra commits per month: 2007 - 2018 The commits begin with the first one in July 2007 by Krzysztof Kowalczyk (blue color). He founded this project. Development was steady ongoing. The activity increased a lot when a second developer joined 2 years later in July 2009, zeniko (green color). They worked together for nearly 7 years a...