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.
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.