Google sponsors open source software through the Google Summer of Code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code

Some projects that benefit include:

  • Open Street Map

  • Organic Maps

  • VLC

  • LibreOffice

  • Gimp

  • Debian

Why do they do that? Google is one of the world’s largest corporations.

Isn’t this… very suspicious… ? Is their goal simply to fuck with Adobe and Microsoft executives?

  • 0ndead
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    1 day ago

    So they don’t have to pay devs or other vendors