Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 8 hours agoTo an enormous extent are todays data centers, cloud providers, and all the techology the whole world use today based on open source. Without linux, curl, ffmpeg, and so on nothing in todays high tech society would work. Google, as it is today, would not exist if it was for all the open source they leech of.
BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 8 hours ago
Well Google contributes a lot to open source, but I get your point.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
They mostly do that because they want control and maybe slowly reach their tentacles into projects. Like Chromium and Android are in theory open source, but in practice both are locked down by google and used for their business and mass data harvesting and advertising empire.
bufalo1973@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Chrome comes from Safari that comes from KHTML, the original KDE web browser. No open source means no Chrome.