RedMonk as the Voice of Microsoft (Still), or How This 'Analyst' Fails to Grasp Data Bias
Still a shill
They are measuring "popularity" by reducing their scope to people and projects who choose to be slaves of Microsoft:
RedMonk has long been a Microsoft booster, echoing many Microsoft talking point. █
“Analysts sell out - that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.”
--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]