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That’s what happens when you don’t need to please the shareholders.
by huseyinkeles 10mo ago
That’s what happens when you don’t need to please the shareholders.
- stavros 10mo agoThat's very true, and I didn't realize it until you just said it.
- charcircuit 10mo agoGoogle has contributed more to open source than Valve while being a public company. It's not just Valve who sponsor open source work.
- sabellito 10mo agoI'd like to see that comparison tracking the number of devs and how much open source software each company uses.
- _aavaa_ 10mo agoThey seem to be skimping out on their contributions to FFmpeg.
- charcircuit 10mo agoGoogle has contributed many patches to ffmpeg. Valve has contributed 0 as far as I am aware.
- Dylan16807 10mo agoThey aren't. Sometimes headlines are misleading.
- ozarkerD 10mo agoValve employs like <400 people
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- Zambyte 10mo agoBut what percentage of what Google has produced has been Free Software vs what percentage of what Valve has produced? Google may have produced more Free Software, but Google also produces way more things.
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- charcircuit 10mo agoI don't think this very practical or relevant here, but I expect Google to have a higher percentage. Valve employees are focused on Valve's proprietary software: Steam, SteamVR, their games, etc. Valve more often pays contractorsto work on open source software than work on it themselves. My comment was more to prove that it possible to do open source while having share holders. My claim that Google does more is auxiliary to it.
- bityard 10mo agoIf you think publicly-held companies are bad, wait until you see what private equity gets up to.
- fragmede 10mo agoOkay, but have you heard about the monarchy?