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Google is actually kind of infamous for not using much in the way of OSS software. The list of things I can think of is: * Linux * LLVM * Webkit/Chrome (whi

by Eridrus 10mo ago

Google is actually kind of infamous for not using much in the way of OSS software. The list of things I can think of is: * Linux * LLVM * Webkit/Chrome (which they have done the majority of contributions to for a long time) * Java & a little bit of Python

HeyMeco 10mo ago
For Linux / ChromeOS: GPU drivers benefit heavily: - Freedreno for Qualcomm - Panthor for Arm Mali Lots of Linux contributions for Rust drivers
manmal 10mo ago
Oh, only Linux? /s
dust42 10mo ago
So if you subtract linux and LLVM and Webkit and Java, what is left of Google? Absolutely nothing. Well, a mostly empty, dysfunctional mono repo lacking the main dependencies.
- tehlike 10mo ago
  Come on.
  - doublerabbit 10mo ago
    Oh yeah, manipulating users and monetary siphoning data with their advertising schemes.
- Eridrus 10mo ago
  I don't think the company would be very different if these projects had never existed and everyone had to pay for proprietary tools. The people meaningfully benefiting from open source are the people and companies on the margin, not the biggest tech companies in the world.
fooker 10mo ago
There's a whole lot more, check `third_party/` if you work at Google. (disclaimer, used to work at google a long time ago)
- Eridrus 10mo ago
  There were directories there for sure, but I honestly never saw anything get used from there (except I think TensorFlow was in there?). My personal experience was I never used any OSS code (that wasn't Google Open Sourcing its own code) except Linux & LLVM. It definitely didn't feel meaningful to the company besides the ones I called out.
- galkk 10mo ago
  A lot of it also comes from acquired projects/companies, that are brought to google3, with plans to deprecate and get rid of eventually
DrBenCarson 10mo ago
Didn’t they open source Kubernetes (aka probably the biggest OSS project since Linux itself)
- jeffbee 10mo ago
  Biggest in what sense? Certainly not in terms of the size of the code base. It is an order of magnitude smaller than Chromium.
atonse 10mo ago
V8 (covered in Chrome), Angular, Dart, Golang, Kubernetes, Android (remember Android???)
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by Eridrus 10mo ago

HeyMeco 10mo ago

For Linux / ChromeOS: GPU drivers benefit heavily: - Freedreno for Qualcomm - Panthor for Arm Mali Lots of Linux contributions for Rust drivers

manmal 10mo ago

Oh, only Linux? /s

dust42 10mo ago

So if you subtract linux and LLVM and Webkit and Java, what is left of Google? Absolutely nothing. Well, a mostly empty, dysfunctional mono repo lacking the main dependencies.

tehlike 10mo ago
Come on.
- doublerabbit 10mo ago
  Oh yeah, manipulating users and monetary siphoning data with their advertising schemes.
Eridrus 10mo ago
I don't think the company would be very different if these projects had never existed and everyone had to pay for proprietary tools. The people meaningfully benefiting from open source are the people and companies on the margin, not the biggest tech companies in the world.

fooker 10mo ago

There's a whole lot more, check `third_party/` if you work at Google. (disclaimer, used to work at google a long time ago)

Eridrus 10mo ago
There were directories there for sure, but I honestly never saw anything get used from there (except I think TensorFlow was in there?). My personal experience was I never used any OSS code (that wasn't Google Open Sourcing its own code) except Linux & LLVM. It definitely didn't feel meaningful to the company besides the ones I called out.
galkk 10mo ago
A lot of it also comes from acquired projects/companies, that are brought to google3, with plans to deprecate and get rid of eventually

DrBenCarson 10mo ago

Didn’t they open source Kubernetes (aka probably the biggest OSS project since Linux itself)

jeffbee 10mo ago
Biggest in what sense? Certainly not in terms of the size of the code base. It is an order of magnitude smaller than Chromium.

atonse 10mo ago

V8 (covered in Chrome), Angular, Dart, Golang, Kubernetes, Android (remember Android???)

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