Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by lacker on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:00PM
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Google has released roughly every meaningful patch it has made to the open source software it was built on.
Chrome or Android seem like good counterexamples, where the software that most people use (Chrome, or Android + Google Experience) is specifically kept in two separate buckets, open source and closed source, so that Google can strategically keep some parts open and some parts closed.
Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by DannyBee on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:37PM
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Err?
They are certainly not useful counterexamples. That is open source software Google made itself.
The original complaint was about taking other people's open source (mongodb) without contributing back. Not "failing to release stuff it made itself". That's a completely different thing.
Even there, what i said is still true: Google has released every meaningful patch to the open source software it used in making Chrome/Android.
Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by darkarmani on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:12PM
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At least 10 years ago, i thought google had a lot of custom linux kernel patches that weren't public.
Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by DannyBee on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:40PM
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For production server kernel:
The only kernel patches these days i'm aware of that aren't upstream are hardware drivers for very custom hardware, or ones we released but upstream didn't want and we still maintain.
Like any sane kernel team, google tries to minimize it's difference with upstream since it has huge maintenance cost.
Google has released roughly every meaningful patch it has made to the open source software it was built on[1].
As for funding, that's definitely not true by the numbers last i looked (and definitely was not true in the past).
Without concrete disagreements, this is just handwaving. So if you make some, i'm happy to argue with real data.
[1] The only cases i can think of that this isn't true is when the Googler who worked on it left before they got a chance to do that (and nobody has picked it up since)