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> As far as oss goes, I think Google is the best. Better than Microsoft? I don't think I've ever been able to talk to a human at Google, whereas with Microsoft
by bmitc 4y ago
> As far as oss goes, I think Google is the best.
Better than Microsoft? I don't think I've ever been able to talk to a human at Google, whereas with Microsoft, I get feedback very quickly on issues and pull requests. Does Google even interact with people with open source? For example, I am using Skia via SkiaSharp, and the only place I know of to go for Skia help and issues is their Google Groups page, a website out of the 2000s. And very few seem to actually monitor the group. I'm not even really sure what Google does in open source. Even the things that are released to the public, like Skia, are well known to come with a huge amount of internal baggage.
Whereas Microsoft has dozens of active projects on GitHub where you can talk directly with the people working on it at Microsoft.
- joshuamorton 4y agoThis took me about 5 seconds to find: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/skia/issues/list https://bugs.chromium.org/p/skia/issues/list via https://skia.org/docs/dev/contrib/#report-bugs https://skia.org/docs/dev/contrib/#report-bugs. > I'm not even really sure what Google does in open source. Kubernetes (and a bunch of the offshoots), golang, a bunch of ML things, etc. It's just that many have independent foundations (CNCF) running them now to keep project management independent from a single company.