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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by magicalist on Saturday April 15, 2017 @03:49AM (#14119829)
> Google didn't create Android, they bought it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

You'd have a better point if you had pointed to the Linux kernel, the many open source libraries, etc that make it up

> Metrics for this are pretty lame, but even they show this is wrong: https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/15/in-your-face-goo...

I doubt GP's claim is correct, but that article is terrible. Those counts are any contributors to repos in an org, not number of contributors from those orgs. And you can see the immediate problem with using orgs when you see both Google and Angular are in the top 10.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by Nexxxeh on Saturday April 15, 2017 @05:00AM (#14120001)
Android, Angular, BoringSSL, Chromium, Dart, Go, Kubernete, TensorFlow. Not to mention the cash and services it ploughs into the OSS in various ways, from the Millions it gave to Firefox over the years, to people collaborating over Hangouts, to Project Zero.

I don't think "unmatched" is unreasonable.

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by NicoJuicy on Saturday April 15, 2017 @06:43AM (#14120212)
Millions to Firefox to be the search engine on the browser.

It wasn't a donation ;)

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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by bigbugbag on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:32PM (#14135006)
And they made much more from firefox than what they paid.
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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by dheera on Monday April 17, 2017 @06:49PM (#14135096)
How so? If Firefox didn't exist they'd make the same amount from MSIE.
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Re:Princeton’s Ad-Blocker May Put an End to the Ad-Blocking ... by shouldbworking on Sunday April 16, 2017 @03:16PM (#14127035)
Also the biggest contributors to KVM support in the Linux kernel, which is directly driving most of the container craze.

Also HBase, Hadoop, Guava, GWT, Closure. Tons of others we probably don't know of. I would guess Google has around 500 notable open source projects where they're either major contributors or authors.

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