Comment by dirkgently
7 years ago
Good on Google.
Besides the kernel contributions, Google has a long list of open source projects: https://opensource.google.com/projects/list/featured
For all the hates Google gets on HN, they have been at the forefront of supporting OSS.
https://opensource.microsoft.com/
https://aws.github.io/
https://opensource.fb.com/
https://netflix.github.io/
https://uber.github.io/
https://opensource.apple.com/
This list is not nearly exhaustive, but my main point is Google is hardly the outlier here.
Good on all the developers pushing for open source so much. The industry is in a much better place than it was 25 years ago.
Google develops Android. It's in their best interest that their changes to the kernel get mainlined... The internal APIs of the kernel tend to change a lot, and Linus doesn't really care about out of tree breakage.
That's how userland Android is.