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Google has contributed more to open source than Valve while being a public company. It's not just Valve who sponsor open source work.
by charcircuit 1y ago
Google has contributed more to open source than Valve while being a public company. It's not just Valve who sponsor open source work.
- sabellito 1y agoI'd like to see that comparison tracking the number of devs and how much open source software each company uses.
- _aavaa_ 1y agoThey seem to be skimping out on their contributions to FFmpeg.
- charcircuit 1y agoGoogle has contributed many patches to ffmpeg. Valve has contributed 0 as far as I am aware.
- Dylan16807 1y agoThey aren't. Sometimes headlines are misleading.
- ozarkerD 1y agoValve employs like <400 people
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- Zambyte 1y 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 1y 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.