__/ [ mlw ] on Wednesday 26 July 2006 01:24 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Why Google and Yahoo! can't be better open source citizens
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | "These companies have failed to write code according to a cardinal
>> | open source principle: modularity. Yahoo! and Google can't open source
>> | more code because their code is too tightly bound together - layer upon
>> | layer upon layer requiring layer upon layer upon layer."
>> `----
>>
>>
>
http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/07/why_google_and.html
>>
>> Google will unveil a service for the Open Source community this Thursday.
>> There are only speculations as regards the nature of the product...
>>
>> I believe that a few years back Yahoo moved from the homebred YScript to
>> PHP.
>
> Yahoo is great with open source, I'm not aware of their funding policy, but
> they actively use open source internally and contribute back when ever
> possible.
Google claims to be doing much of the same. DiBona speaks of
porting all Google applications to Linux while Google also
contributes many patches to Apache (Greg Stein now works at
Google), Wine, and a few other projects that Google uses
heavily and even depends on. In fact, Google's use of Linux
alone (nearly half a million GNU/Linux servers... Debian, I
suspect, is the primary distribution) means that companies
like Dell stock Linux servers and further see its potential.
Google engineers also use (G)Ubuntu on their desktops, which
sure has an impact.
Best wishes,
Roy
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