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How open source changed Google and Google changed open source

• kragniz 13y ago
  > And then Git itself wasn't working for us anymore because it wasn't scaling when we'd have an operating system release. So we ended up hiring most of the Git team. I didn't know most of the core Git team worked for Google. Has this changed the development of it by much? How did this solve the scaling problem?
  • martinp 13y ago
    I didn't know most of the team worked there either, but if I remember correctly, they have employed Junio Hamano for some time. Hamano is the person Torvalds trusted to keep maintaining Git when he stepped down as maintainer.
• hjek 13y ago
  It's funny that Android is "Google's biggest contribution to Open Source", because it isn't open source.
  • sigmar 13y ago
    what?
  • pix64 13y ago
    https://android.googlesource.com/ https://android.googlesource.com/ Whats this?
    • hjek 13y ago
      I guess OS X is open source too then: http://www.opensource.apple.com/ http://www.opensource.apple.com/ And I guess hamburgers that contain salad and tomato are vegetarian.
• capkutay 13y ago
  I always thought hadoop, mapreduce, hbase (via bigtable) were Google's biggest contributions to open source. The new generation of Operating Systems for mobile devices existed before android came to fruition (iOS on iPhone for example). But hadoop introduced a new paradigm of distributed computing to the world.