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Google Plans to Reveal Some of its Code

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the could-you-be-more-vague-please dept.

Andy Beal writes "According to Australia's The Age, Google plans to reveal some of the code it uses to great success. It says ' "The time has come for Google to "give something back", Wayne Rosing, the company's vice-president of engineering, told students while on a recruiting drive in Melbourne last week. "There have been a lot of conversations in the company in the past two months about (how) . . . it's time for us to give something back. So our technical director, Craig Silverstein, has started a project to look at all the Google code and start figuring out what parts of it we want to give back," Rosing said.'"

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  1. oh my GOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    google just made me cream my pants again.

    1. Re:oh my GOD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I can one up you. I have cream, fudge, cheese, and lemonade mixed in my pants. By which of course I mean semen, shit, smegma, and piss.

  2. fpfp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fpfp

  3. Re:and Sun is "opening" Java... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You don't. But rather than just bitching about it, how about you just exercise some patience and wait a little while? Counting them out before they even get started is a little unfair, don't you think?

    We have patience it seems that the Slashdot editors do not. They need to exercise some caution when they continuously report bullshit over and over again.

    Once something is set in stone you can report it. Until then let it ride on some Joe Blow's blog as a baseless press-release.

  4. Woohoo by whyne · · Score: -1, Troll

    I cant wait, starting in 2006 Longhorn will be able to find my files faster before giving me a BSOD. I just can't wait.