35 Google Open Source Projects That You Probably Don't Know

Linked by Kroc Camen on Mon 28th Dec 2009 09:00 UTC

"Google is one of the biggest companies supporting OpenSource movement, they released more than 500 open source projects (most of them are samples showing how to use their API). In this article I will try to write about most interesting and free releases from Google, some of them might be abandoned." Via NewsYCombinator.

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A very enlightening article

by fithisux on Mon 28th Dec 2009 11:05 UTC

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2006-01-22

I didn't know this technologies and I hope that they will be integrated in every open source project. I wished they created or adopted OpenCFLite to have a common foundation for every OS with the purpose of enhancing their OSS offerings.

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it's a joke?

by collinm on Mon 28th Dec 2009 14:20 UTC

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google use many opensource technology but their contribution are low

i think sun, ibm contribute a lot more

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RE: it's a joke?

by Macrat on Mon 28th Dec 2009 16:40 UTC in reply to "it's a joke?"

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i think sun, ibm contribute a lot more

Very true.

Sun's Open Office alone adds up to more code contributed than most companies.

Then add in Open Solaris and Java.

Sun also contributes to many projects like Mozilla and GNOME.

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RE[2]: it's a joke?

by collinm on Mon 28th Dec 2009 17:34 UTC in reply to "RE: it's a joke?"

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glash fish, netbeans, mysql

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RE[3]: it's a joke?

by dvzt on Mon 28th Dec 2009 21:32 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: it's a joke?"

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Open Web Server, OpenDS (LDAP server), Open HA Cluster. According to Wikipedia, Tomcat was also started by Sun.

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RE[4]: it's a joke?

by kfet on Tue 29th Dec 2009 00:39 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: it's a joke?"

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ZFS, DTrace

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RE[3]: it's a joke?

by collinm on Tue 29th Dec 2009 00:29 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: it's a joke?"

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ibm asked sun to liberate java, jvm... but ibm don't open their java implementation...

one good thing about ibm, it's documentation...

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RE: it's a joke?

by Luminair on Wed 30th Dec 2009 05:21 UTC in reply to "it's a joke?"

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yeah google's contribution to open source is low

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lol

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RE[2]: it's a joke?

by strcpy on Wed 30th Dec 2009 06:30 UTC in reply to "RE: it's a joke?"

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yeah google's contribution to open source is low

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lol

Yes, at least lower than many other multinationals.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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RE[3]: it's a joke?

by JAlexoid on Wed 30th Dec 2009 12:19 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: it's a joke?"

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Their single biggest contribution to FOSS is in $$$ given out during their Summer of Code. Do not underestimate the amount of code generated as a result.

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RE[4]: it's a joke?

by Luminair on Thu 31st Dec 2009 00:55 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: it's a joke?"

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not to mention spearheading the use of the most important open source technologies of the decade. no big deal!

right. if it wasn't for google these geniuses would be reading the internet through ActiveX goggles. you think mozilla beat IE? think again.

google's contribution to open source is low. stunning. ridiculous. I hope there are only few ignorant enough to believe that.

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