Nike releases open-source software to play with the techies

SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 17: Shanghai residents pass by a Nike store on the Nanjing Road shopping street on April 17, 2010 in Shanghai, China. The Shanghai World Expo will be held from May 1 to October 31, 2010 and is expected to attract 70 million visitors. The trade show will be themed 'Better City - Better Life'. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) Nike, the home of all things athletic, is joining the ranks of the programmers with its launch of open-source software. Last week, Nike published three open-source projects on GitHub: a JSON parsing framework, a distributed tracing solution for Java and a lightweight logging library written in Swift. The company also open-sourced the code that powers its own site on GitHub. While… Read More