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This Calculator project was added to GitHub 5 months ago in January now the project has 17,000 stars.

Are these real people liking the project or has Microsoft got bots to boost it's open-source reputation... it's especially suspicious now since they own the platform now...

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There are almost 8 billion people in the world. I think 17,000 people is a small number. And geeks are going to geek and nothing geekier than checking Microsoft Calculator, a simple project that everyone can relate to.

I think you are right. Another possible explanation would be a big conspiracy though, and probably the government is also involved somehow.

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