@Mister Spock All companies do what's best for them. Always have, always will, or they go out of business. It just happens that some companies believe that open source works for their benefit. Clearly it has worked for Google, as it also has for IBM, Red Hat, and Oracle. Heck, even Microsoft has an open-source program these days.
Now each of these companies views, supports, and uses (or abuses if you like) open source in very different ways. But all of them use open source not because it's some abstract right thing to do but because it benefits their bottom line. Altruism is, at most, a small part of the picture.
Steven
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