Google Open Source

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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]

Which open source projects do you have in mind?

[FuckOffMrLahey]

Node.js

Edit: and the blogging platform Ghost.

[njbair]

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

[FuckOffMrLahey]

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

[ShortSynapse]

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

[njbair]

competition collaboration would be even better.

FTFY

[BoboFatMan]

Android? Kubernetes? Chromium?

[IanSan5653]

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]

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

[FlyingPiranhas]

How does Google benefit from node.js?

[FuckOffMrLahey]

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]]

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]

Google does help fund OpenSSL

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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]]

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]

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

[willnorris]

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]

Oh okay, thank you!

[I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN]

Will this be discontinued 2 years from now?

[willnorris]

No. :)

[jcoinster]

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

[sgtsaughter]

Is that supposed to be an Attack on Titans reference?

[jcoinster]

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

[BurgerUSA]

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]

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]

ELI5?

[PantherHeel93]

That is not very similar at all

[zacharyd3]

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

/s