Google sponsors open source software through the Google Summer of Code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

Some projects that benefit include:

  • Open Street Map

  • Organic Maps

  • VLC

  • LibreOffice

  • Gimp

  • Debian

Why do they do that? Google is one of the world’s largest corporations.

Isn’t this… very suspicious… ? Is their goal simply to fuck with Adobe and Microsoft executives?

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    2 days ago

    Cynically? To keep the FTC and regional equivalents off their back by funding their competition (Mozilla, for example).

    Genuinely? There are possibly a few teams within the behemoth of Google that actually do want to support the green software they use. The value of that support is probably small enough to be hidden in a departments costs so doesn’t get noticed by the pigs in command.