_aavaa_ a day ago

They seem to be skimping out on their contributions to FFmpeg.

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  • charcircuit a day ago

    Google has contributed many patches to ffmpeg. Valve has contributed 0 as far as I am aware.

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Zambyte a day ago

But what percentage of what Google has produced has been Free Software vs what percentage of what Valve has produced? Google may have produced more Free Software, but Google also produces way more things.

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  • charcircuit a day ago

    I don't think this very practical or relevant here, but I expect Google to have a higher percentage. Valve employees are focused on Valve's proprietary software: Steam, SteamVR, their games, etc. Valve more often pays contractorsto work on open source software than work on it themselves.

    My comment was more to prove that it possible to do open source while having share holders. My claim that Google does more is auxiliary to it.

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sabellito a day ago

I'd like to see that comparison tracking the number of devs and how much open source software each company uses.

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