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> Google didn't create Android, they bought it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus You'd have a bette

> Google didn't create Android, they bought it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus You'd have a better point if you had pointed to the Linux kernel, the many open source libraries, etc that make it up > Metrics for this are pretty lame, but even they show this is wrong: https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/15/in-your-face-google/ https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/15/in-your-face-goo... I doubt GP's claim is correct, but that article is terrible. Those counts are any contributors to repos in an org, not number of contributors from those orgs. And you can see the immediate problem with using orgs when you see both Google and Angular are in the top 10.

Nexxxeh 10y ago
Android, Angular, BoringSSL, Chromium, Dart, Go, Kubernete, TensorFlow. Not to mention the cash and services it ploughs into the OSS in various ways, from the Millions it gave to Firefox over the years, to people collaborating over Hangouts, to Project Zero. I don't think "unmatched" is unreasonable.
- NicoJuicy 10y ago
  Millions to Firefox to be the search engine on the browser. It wasn't a donation ;)
  - bigbugbag 10y ago
    And they made much more from firefox than what they paid.
    - dheera 10y ago
      How so? If Firefox didn't exist they'd make the same amount from MSIE.
- shouldbworking 10y ago
  Also the biggest contributors to KVM support in the Linux kernel, which is directly driving most of the container craze. Also HBase, Hadoop, Guava, GWT, Closure. Tons of others we probably don't know of. I would guess Google has around 500 notable open source projects where they're either major contributors or authors.