Jeremy Allison Column Archives -- The Low Point -- a View from the Valley
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| Some Googlers get it. The Open Source people, the smart ones, the
| ones you can thank for the Linux versions of Google Earth, and the
| graphical software Picasa, and of course for the Google sponsored "Summer
| of Code" program. Summer of Code is a program designed to encourage
| vacationing Computer Science students to spend that time writing
| more Open Source software instead of lounging on the beach in Cabos
| San Lucas. It's one of the most far-sighted and efficient ways to
| spend money on improving Open Source code I've ever seen. Donating
| money on Open Source projects is usually counter productive, but
| this is a way of dumping source code on them instead, which is what
| they actually need. A big thanks to Google's Chris DiBona for that.
| Google runs on Linux, but they don't see the need to evangelize
| it to their own customers. I think that's a big mistake.
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