Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects

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."

Comments

Re:Only 2 operating systems?

[Lars T.]

"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?

Mac computers at Google

[tristian_was_here]

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







Only joking!

Re:Why Mac, though ?

[Ihmhi]

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

Shut the fuck up

[Reality Master 201]

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.