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Google has released roughly every meaningful patch it has made to the open source software it was built on. Chrome or Android seem like good counterexamples, w
by lacker 8y ago
Google has released roughly every meaningful patch it has made to the open source software it was built on.
Chrome or Android seem like good counterexamples, where the software that most people use (Chrome, or Android + Google Experience) is specifically kept in two separate buckets, open source and closed source, so that Google can strategically keep some parts open and some parts closed.
- DannyBee 8y agoErr? They are certainly not useful counterexamples. That is open source software Google made itself. The original complaint was about taking other people's open source (mongodb) without contributing back. Not "failing to release stuff it made itself". That's a completely different thing. Even there, what i said is still true: Google has released every meaningful patch to the open source software it used in making Chrome/Android.