flamingos comments on Google executives are great people. They spend millions of dollars to support open-source software and undermine commercial solutions

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/opensource@programming.dev

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Does anyone actually believe that?

Why does Google sponsor Gnome, KDE, GIMP, LibreOffice, Open Street Maps?

This is very suspicious

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 14 points 3 months ago

It's relatively cheap (for Google), buys them a lot of good will and gets people contributing to the stack most of Google depends on.