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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)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Zaelaa@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Does anyone actually believe that?

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

This is very suspicious

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There are many, varied motivations for contributing to open source projects, and most of them aren’t a sense of altruism.

It’s great PR to market open source in utopian terms, but the reality is far more complicated.

The Apache web server wasn’t created out of the goodness of people’s hearts but out of mid-90s internet startups’ need for a reliable, scalable platform on which to profitably run services.