Apparently my comment looks like I'm criticizing Google for making money off OSS projects. That is NOT what I meant to do.
I like companies that make companies that open source their commercial products. It means they aren't paranoid of someone 'stealing' their work, like so many other companies do so. And that they realize the power of open source. I'm NOT against people making money from open source projects. The only word I used to describe my opinion is 'interesting'.
I am aware of companies that also have OSS as their main/major revenue like Nginx, Redis Labs, and ofcourse the big one, Red hat. Even Ubuntu is a such a company and I like them.
I thought it was 'interesting' because till now I saw google as this black box which never open sourced anything other than some tiny tool which wasn't related to their revenue source. That changed a bit when they open sourced Kubernetes and Tensorflow, but that was possibly because they would benefit from adoption.
I like companies that make companies that open source their commercial products. It means they aren't paranoid of someone 'stealing' their work, like so many other companies do so. And that they realize the power of open source. I'm NOT against people making money from open source projects. The only word I used to describe my opinion is 'interesting'.
I am aware of companies that also have OSS as their main/major revenue like Nginx, Redis Labs, and ofcourse the big one, Red hat. Even Ubuntu is a such a company and I like them.
I thought it was 'interesting' because till now I saw google as this black box which never open sourced anything other than some tiny tool which wasn't related to their revenue source. That changed a bit when they open sourced Kubernetes and Tensorflow, but that was possibly because they would benefit from adoption.