What is Google doing with its open source teams?
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What is Google doing with its open source teams?
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Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#2step one: shift the focus from free software (liberty minded software) on to "open source" software. i.e. software which you can look but not touch.
step two: profit
Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#3step one: shift the focus from free software (liberty minded software) on to "open source" software. i.e. software which you can look but not touch. step two: profit
step one: promote BSD and MIT licenses over more copyleft licenses such as GPL
step two: profit from people willing to code for enterprises for free
There has to be some reason that Google released PyTorch under BSD-3 by Meta and TensorFlow being released under Apache by Google.
Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#4"What is Google doing with its open source teams?"
Laying them off? It is quite sad to see.
Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#5step one: shift the focus from free software (liberty minded software) on to "open source" software. i.e. software which you can look but not touch. step two: profit
step one: promote BSD and MIT licenses over more copyleft licenses such as GPL step two: profit from people willing to code for enterprises for free There has to be some reason that Google released PyTorch under BSD-3 by Meta and TensorFlow being released under Apache by Google.
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Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#6step one: shift the focus from free software (liberty minded software) on to "open source" software. i.e. software which you can look but not touch. step two: profit
step one: promote BSD and MIT licenses over more copyleft licenses such as GPL step two: profit from people willing to code for enterprises for free There has to be some reason that Google released PyTorch under BSD-3 by Meta and TensorFlow being released under Apache by Google.
You forgot step 1.5: make contributing to open-source an unwritten rule to getting a job in the industry
Full disclosure: I got my current job before I had contributed anything to open source but I was asked a lot about it while applying to companies like it's expected that you work in your free time
Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#7It will be interesting to see amazing talent leave Google and build new companies and institutions now that it’s slowly being mismanaged to death.
Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#8It will be interesting to see amazing talent leave Google and build new companies and institutions now that it’s slowly being mismanaged to death.
Yes, our smartest people, who were once making people click ads, are now fired.
Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#9Really curious about the Flutter/Dart team. It looks like great tech but its by google so its always at risk of abandonment.
Re: What is Google doing with its open source teams?
#10I knew Chris DiBona quite well. While I don't know the whole community as well so this is a rash statement, it's hard to imagine anyone knowing more about open source than Chris does.
And Chris, if you're reading this: you rock, man.