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:Mac developers don't do cross platform.

[Anonymous Coward]

But it would be nothing without all development of the libraries it uses(ffmpeg, x264, xvid, lame, etc) etc that was definitely not started as mac only.

Re:Mac developers don't do cross platform.

[Lars T.]

OpenOffice? That's not a real OpenSource project, but started on the Amstrad CPC as a commercial app, and was actually on the Mac before it was available for Linux. Go suck a lemon.