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?

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    I’m not sure about OSM but with Android, the story has always kinda been a mixture of buying political favor by doing sth good for society and creating trust in the ecosystem; because the ecosystem of android cannot simply be shut down by one company (google) going down, app developers have a greater confidence that the platform will still exist in the future and are therefore more likely to develop apps for it; which again benefits android and therefore google.