Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle and much of the open

Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle and much of the open source community by launching an odd new open source organization

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Published 10 Jul 2020

· Google's reputation as a powerhouse of the open source world is at risk after it announced the creation of an odd new open source organization and transferred a key software project to it.
· The problem is that Google promised back in 2017 to transfer responsibility for the whole of this important open source software to an...

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Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle and much of the open source community by launching an odd new open source organization

Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle and much of the open source community by launching an odd new open source organization

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