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To: Knitebane

Um, FYI, none of Google’s products are Open Source ...


12 posted on 12/29/2009 10:49:03 AM PST by MetaThought
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To: MetaThought
Um, FYI, none of Google’s products are Open Source ...

What?

35 Google open-source projects that you probably don't know

That'll get you started with a quick list.

All of Google's APIs are fully open and documented.

Google lists over 500 projects and 15 million lines of code released as open source.

You can dig in deeper here.

16 posted on 12/29/2009 10:58:34 AM PST by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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To: MetaThought
Um, FYI, none of Google’s products are Open Source ...

You might want to read the GNU General License that Linux is written and distributed under. If Google is using Linux, they can't make the code private. It has to stay open source.

That license means that:

...any free program is threatened constantly by software patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
In light of this, you may want to rephrase your comment.
21 posted on 12/29/2009 11:16:30 AM PST by stripes1776 ("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
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