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WebKit, llvm, are pretty important in that they altered the fundamental of present day by being so openly used. It's apples ehm to oranges at that level, but wh

WebKit, llvm, are pretty important in that they altered the fundamental of present day by being so openly used. It's apples ehm to oranges at that level, but what has Google contributes of the likes?

ekianjo 12y ago
Easy. Android (Open Source, while the source is not always released right after a new version is out), running on most Smartphones over the world. Pretty big contribution I'd say, especially in a world turning Mobile-First. Chromium. Go. I'd say their contributions are far from negligible.
progers7 12y ago
Until they forked Blink, Google was the top contributor to WebKit: http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/02/06/report-on-the-activity-of-companies-in-the-webkit-project/ http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/02/06/report-on-the-activity-o...
- Demiurge 12y ago
  They might have contributed the most over time, but we probably don't disagree who was more important to the whole WebKit party getting going.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    The KHTML developers?
mda 12y ago
Android, Chromium, V8, Go, Dart, Guava, Guice, GWT, Angular, Polymer, Blink, WebM, and probably hundreds of libraries.
- Demiurge 12y ago
  Android sadly is not OSS, just like OSX isn't, even though it's obviously based on it. Chromium was V8 and WebKit, and so depended on WebKit. The rest are obviously not fundamental pieces of technology.
  - wstrange 12y ago
    How are those other open source projects not "fundamental"?
  - icebraining 12y ago
    Android sadly is not OSS "Android" can have conflicting definitions, but AOSP is certainly OSS.
lmm 12y ago
Apple did the absolute minimum with WebKit source (occasional tarball dumps) until a KHTML developer's rant shamed them into being a bit better. LLVM has become a valuable project but I think mostly by luck; Apple contributed some funding to it because they didn't want to make the patent promises they would need to to distribute GCC. Neither of these is a new project that was developed by Apple and then released, in contrast to mda's list.

WebKit, llvm, are pretty important in that they altered the fundamental of present day by being so openly used. It's apples ehm to oranges at that level, but what has Google contributes of the likes?

ekianjo 12y ago

Easy. Android (Open Source, while the source is not always released right after a new version is out), running on most Smartphones over the world. Pretty big contribution I'd say, especially in a world turning Mobile-First. Chromium. Go. I'd say their contributions are far from negligible.

progers7 12y ago

Until they forked Blink, Google was the top contributor to WebKit: http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/02/06/report-on-the-activity-of-companies-in-the-webkit-project/ http://blog.bitergia.com/2013/02/06/report-on-the-activity-o...

Demiurge 12y ago
They might have contributed the most over time, but we probably don't disagree who was more important to the whole WebKit party getting going.
- icebraining 12y ago
  The KHTML developers?

mda 12y ago

Android, Chromium, V8, Go, Dart, Guava, Guice, GWT, Angular, Polymer, Blink, WebM, and probably hundreds of libraries.

Demiurge 12y ago
Android sadly is not OSS, just like OSX isn't, even though it's obviously based on it. Chromium was V8 and WebKit, and so depended on WebKit. The rest are obviously not fundamental pieces of technology.
- wstrange 12y ago
  How are those other open source projects not "fundamental"?
- icebraining 12y ago
  Android sadly is not OSS "Android" can have conflicting definitions, but AOSP is certainly OSS.

lmm 12y ago

Apple did the absolute minimum with WebKit source (occasional tarball dumps) until a KHTML developer's rant shamed them into being a bit better. LLVM has become a valuable project but I think mostly by luck; Apple contributed some funding to it because they didn't want to make the patent promises they would need to to distribute GCC. Neither of these is a new project that was developed by Apple and then released, in contrast to mda's list.