charcircuit
16 hours agoGoogle has contributed more to open source than Valve while being a public company. It's not just Valve who sponsor open source work.
ozarkerD
15 hours agoValve employs like <400 people
_aavaa_
16 hours agoThey seem to be skimping out on their contributions to FFmpeg.
charcircuit
15 hours agoGoogle has contributed many patches to ffmpeg. Valve has contributed 0 as far as I am aware.
Dylan16807
14 hours agoThey aren't. Sometimes headlines are misleading.
Zambyte
15 hours agoBut 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.
charcircuit
14 hours agoI 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.
sabellito
16 hours agoI'd like to see that comparison tracking the number of devs and how much open source software each company uses.