Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Well Google contributes a lot to open source, but I get your point.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month ago
Chrome comes from Safari that comes from KHTML, the original KDE web browser. No open source means no Chrome.