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Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects

Posted by Soulskill on from the much-more-productive-than-freecell dept.

mjasay sends us a link to a CNet story, which begins: "In the '20 percent time' that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their Macs. Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows. It is in the 20 percent employee development time, however, where this statistic becomes interesting. At Google, development time translates into products. The more Mac-friendly employees, the more Mac-related development. The more Mac-related development, the more Google-sponsored Mac-based open-source code. As Google's Mac Developer Playground demonstrates, some of this code is quite interesting."

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  1. Re:Only 2 operating systems? by Lars+T. · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows." So you can only use these 2 operating systems @ google? I was expecting a bit more accuracy from the article... Yeah, obviously they meant to say "... opting to use the Mac over Windows and Linux." - Happy now?
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    Lars T.

    To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck

  2. Re:Only 2 operating systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was expecting a bit more accuracy from the article... When did you acquire this taste for luxuries?

  3. Re:Only 2 operating systems? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ahem, GNU/Linux you insensitive clod!

  4. Mac computers at Google by tristian_was_here · · Score: 2, Funny

    If google are going to start using Macs throughout their company I might start using Live.com







    Only joking!

  5. Re:Why Mac, though ? by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't forget all the productivity saved on not playing games on the Mac.

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    Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
  6. Re:Mac developers don't do cross platform. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The "configure;make;make install" dance never seemed to "just work" for me. Well of course it doesn't work!
    You left the "shuffle;hop;turn" out of your dance

    The full dance goes like this:
    configure;make;shuffle;hop;turn;make install
  7. Re:Incorrect summary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah, well in that case, let me re-write the summary:

    "Google developers are evil corporate scum for choosing proprietary solutions such as MacOS over good, clean, wholesome Linux! The bastards."

  8. Shut the fuck up by Reality+Master+201 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shut the fuck up you worthless cum guzzling sack of fuck. I hope you bleed to death while getting fucked with a spiked dildo.

    Asshole.

    Also, you're doing it wrong.

    1. Re:Shut the fuck up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Whoops, meant to post that one AC.

      Did it wrong.