> Why should they hire people to support something which generates, as far as I can see, no revenue for Google? The reason most companies release projects open

> Why should they hire people to support something which generates, as far as I can see, no revenue for Google? The reason most companies release projects open source for free is that they created them to solve a problem for themselves, but want to benefit from community contributions. Google's ease of abandon suggests they are not really using this library internally.