submitted 17 hours ago by cm0002@europe.pub to c/opensource@programming.dev

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Does anyone actually believe that?

Why does Google sponsor Gnome, KDE, GIMP, LibreOffice, Open Street Maps?

This is very suspicious

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[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 5 points 10 hours ago

It's relatively cheap (for Google), buys them a lot of good will and gets people contributing to the stack most of Google depends on.

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