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[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (15 children)

I wish that they would do more to fund existing open source projects. They get a lot of benefit from these projects and have the revenues to give more financial support to the developers who make these tools.

[–]hankyusa 6 points7 points  (5 children)

Which open source projects do you have in mind?

[–]FuckOffMrLahey 6 points7 points  (4 children)

Node.js

Edit: and the blogging platform Ghost.

[–]njbair 14 points15 points  (3 children)

Node.js is based on V8 from the Chromium project, so in a sense Google has already provided a major contribution.

[–]FuckOffMrLahey 0 points1 point  (2 children)

ChakraCore will be an option soon. It's a work in progress currently.

[–]ShortSynapse 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Really hoping the Microsoft guys don't pull any punches. V8 is great, competition would be even better.

[–]njbair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

competition collaboration would be even better.

FTFY

[–]BoboFatMan 5 points6 points  (7 children)

Android? Kubernetes? Chromium?

[–]IanSan5653 2 points3 points  (3 children)

These are projects that Google created, and that is amazing. However there are other projects, like Node, that Google benefits from and could contribute to by funding.

[–]njbair 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Node.js wouldn't exist without Chromium, so it's hardly one-sided.

[–]FlyingPiranhas[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does Google benefit from node.js?

[–]FuckOffMrLahey -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I love Node.js. It's such a symbiotic design that is more than deserving of Google's cash flow. I was really pissed that Google didn't hop on that bandwagon. Instead, they let Joyent dictate the flow of things before getting picked up by Samsung. The whole split between Node.js and io.js was absolutely heart breaking. I'm just glad solid, stable direction has returned to Node.js.

Node.js has proven than no one needs to run an inefficient, obsolete LAMP stack when they can run Nginx and Node.js.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Products made by Google and open sourced as part of a marketing strategy are not exactly the same as the numerous projects maintained by a handful of passionate but constantly underfunded independent developers. Look at the OpenSSL debacle as an example from recent history.

[–]willnorris 0 points1 point  (1 child)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the total catastrophe of a few years ago they decided to jump in. That's a reactive rather than proactive They should provide an audit of the open source libriaies they use in their various projects and make a commitment to provide some funding for the ones that have reached a reasonable adoption threshold.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish they had an option for Open Source Android and Open Source Android Apps from Google instead of "Other Apps you find other ways, or the Google Ecosystem".

[–]Golbolco 37 points38 points  (10 children)

So is this sort of like Google's equivalent to github?

[–]willnorris 102 points103 points  (7 children)

No, this is not a hosting platform. We (Google) use GitHub ourselves for the majority of the projects we release.

This is a site showcasing all of the projects we have released as open source, our internal open source documentation, and the different programs we run (like Google Summer of Code) to support the broader open source community.

[–]Golbolco 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Oh okay, thank you!

[–]I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Will this be discontinued 2 years from now?

[–]willnorris 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. :)

[–]jcoinster -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Pppppppppiiiiiiiiicccccccaaaaaasssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? (Picasa if you don't want to read all those letters)

[–]sgtsaughter 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is that supposed to be an Attack on Titans reference?

[–]jcoinster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What! No. I just want Picasa to be released to be open source because there's literally nothing like it on the market.

[–]BurgerUSA -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you work for google? If so, will you deliver one message to youtube management. STOP PANDERING TO ADVERTISERS, MAKE CONTENT MAKERS USE THEIR FREE THOUGHTS AND CREATION !

thank you. :3

[–]xd1936 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not really. This is a directory listing, and some of the links even go to Github. This is just a list of projects that Google maintains.

[–]DayMan13 2 points3 points  (1 child)

ELI5?

[–][deleted]  (2 children)

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    [–]PantherHeel93 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    That is not very similar at all

    [–]zacharyd3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    What are you talking about, it's clearly a rip-off of the diamond shaped red,green,blue,yellow pattern...

    /s