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Google executives are great people. They spend millions of dollars to support open-source software and undermine commercial solutions (summerofcode.withgoogle.com)
submitted 3 months ago by 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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[–] 4 points 3 months ago

E.E.E. Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. When you're the highest contributor, you get to exert certain control that would otherwise be impossible. They have a vested interest in this.

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