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:
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Open Street Map
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Organic Maps
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VLC
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LibreOffice
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Gimp
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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?
Because they get to use them and its free for them to do so. They don’t have to have developers on payroll to make some software if the public is making open source code to meet their needs. Its like how university research if freely used by corporations to make immense profit without the researchers receiving a lick of it.