Google launches new Website to give Open Source Projects
In a blog post, Will Norris, a software engineer at Google's Open Source Programs Office, wrote: "Free and open-source software has been part of our technical and organizational foundation since Google's early beginnings . And now, 18 years after Google was founded, Google has launched opensource.google.com . This site "ties together all of our initiatives with information on how we use, release, and support open source". Why is Google doing this? To quote the site, "Google believes that open source is good for everyone. By being open and freely available, it enables and encourages collaboration and the development of technology, solving real world problems." This is not a source-code site, such as GitHub . Instead, it's a master directory to Google's open-source projects. But, it's more. Norris explained that it's a "look under the hood at how we 'do' open source". When Norris says that, he means it. ...