Comment by Vinnl
3 years ago
At least in my perception, Red Hat, Google and Intel too mostly contribute to open source by having their own engineers work on their own open source projects, keeping full control. Valve, on the other hand, appears to contribute to making existing projects better, respecting their existing ideas, and even funding the existing contributors rather than "wedging their way in" and taking control of the projects themselves. Which makes it a somewhat different approach and therefore newsworthy.
Wasn't Google a big sponsor of Xiph and/or Theora at one point?
Yeah I do think they have a couple of projects like that, but it's not the first thing I think of when I think of Google and open source. Possibly it's a comparatively small part of what they do?