Google's open source nature

deiubuaa writes, "Google will present and at OSCON (Open Source Convention, The launch of a new service related to the open source community at the Open Source Conference, in fact, should not be surprised by such news, which is what Google should do, and Google has been doing. In fact, the Google Code can be viewed as an open source community, where Google makes its source code freely available to all outside developers. Google wants feedback from developers on how to improve the source code posted on the site. Google's contribution to open source is far more than that, promoting Firefox and helping the Firefox community developers improve Firefox, providing strong financial support to the Mozilla community, working with Sun to improve the performance of OpenOffice productivity software, Moving a lot of its software to Linux... It can be seen that Google has always had a great interest in open source software, and this is inseparable from Google's corporate culture, and most of the spirit of open source software is Google's spirit of enterprise, equality, mutual aid, democracy and so on. And many of Google's employees come from the open source software community. The more famous of which is Chris DiBona , Google's open source software program manager at present. Chris DiBona is a Linux pro, active in the Linux community, has made considerable contributions to the development of Linux, and later joined Google. He has said that developing open source software was one of the reasons he chose Google. It can be seen that Google and open source software are inextricably linked, it can be said that Google has left the brand of open source in its bones, which is certainly not a bad thing, we can use more cheap or free excellent software, can no longer have a lot of concerns for monopoly, We can enjoy the fun brought by the network in the atmosphere of development freedom. In short, I hope open source software goes well all the way..."