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Google Supports Open Source Software
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prowsej
about 1 year ago about Google
Google spends significant amounts of money paying for students to spend their summer working to support and extend open source software. Here is a map showing where the students are from and what projects benefited: http://code.google.com/soc-map.html
This is a much better way to spend their dotcom billions than paying an advertising firm to create sock puppet ads!
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submitted by ryan (verified representative for dotherightthing.com) about 1 year ago
Google is advertising by doing good… in other words, doing well by doing good.
Another example here: http://dotherightthing.com/entries/19
Perhaps this is why people love Google. I personally would much rather support a company that grabs publicity by working to make the world better… rather than spend hundreds of millions interrupting my life with stupid commercials that a company thinks will alter my behavior.
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