alt Hacker NewsQuestion: What is Google's track record for where their open source releases end up over time?
Genuinely not knowledgeable here
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AlexErrant • yesterday at 11:20 PM
Well, they're not above forking their own project to patch security holes and never upstreaming the fixes.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576
> Google should not be gatekeeping security patches to the standard Android platform code from Android OEMs but that's what they've started doing.
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It depends on where they decide to go with it, I guess. Kubernetes, Go, Tensorflow, Chromium, gRPC are some examples that obviously went incredibly well.