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Ahh the old "We've partnered with one of the largest proprietary software developers in the world to somehow improve open source things" trope never gets old.
by zelon88 3y ago
Ahh the old "We've partnered with one of the largest proprietary software developers in the world to somehow improve open source things" trope never gets old.
- neatze 3y agoif google is largest proprietary software developer, which company is not?
- jszymborski 3y agoall the other ones, hence "largest".
- neatze 3y agohow sure are you that google is ranking lowest by contributions to open source projects ?
- dmoy 3y agoI mean pedantically, both things could be simultaneously true: Company XYZ is the largest developer of proprietary software Company XYZ is the largest contributor to open source If we're talking about raw amounts, not %-of-company's-output
- jszymborski 3y agoLook, I know this is going to paint me as the stereotypical "Pedantic HN commentor", but sincerely, the only response to "if google is largest proprietary software developer, which company is not?" is "all the other ones". I promise I'm not being purposefully obtuse, I really can't find any other meaning to that comment. I really don't know how Google "ranks" w.r.t OSS contributions.
- LeafItAlone 3y agoI think there is a language issue here (doesn’t seem like English is their first language?), so I suspect the original comments intent was different than what it actually says
- Solvency 3y agoYour original question leaves no other answer, rephrase perhaps.
- neatze 3y agocan't it is looked, should have put more thought before typing, others already pointed out what I intended to say.
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- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoGoogle is also one of the largest open source developers in the world, too. So partnering with Google on Open Source can make a lot of sense. But it's in vogue to hate everything Google does on HN at the moment, so oh well.
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- belval 3y agoWhile the comment you are replying to does sound a bit cynical. The reality is HF already signed similar agreements with AWS and Azure several months ago.
- BlackjackCF 3y agoI imagine that there’s not much Hugging Face can do about it if they’re getting pressure to make money by their investors.
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- hashtag-til 3y ago"We've partnered with $company, but we don't really know what that means, so stay tuned" is the oldest PR stunt ever.