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Google executives are great people. They spend millions of dollars to support open-source software and undermine commercial solutions

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Google executives are great people. They spend millions of dollars to support open-source software and undermine commercial solutions

summerofcode.withgoogle.com

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Opensource@programming.dev · 23 hours ago

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Google Summer of Code

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Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more developers into open source software development.

Does anyone actually believe that?

Why does Google sponsor Gnome, KDE, GIMP, LibreOffice, Open Street Maps?

This is very suspicious

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It’s relatively cheap (for Google), buys them a lot of good will and gets people contributing to the stack most of Google depends on.

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