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ELC: Android and the communityELC: Android and the communityPosted Apr 15, 2010 16:14 UTC (Thu) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872)In reply to: ELC: Android and the community by zooko Parent article: ELC: Android and the community
Many of the people I know who work for Google disappeared from their social circles as soon as they joined the company. It seems Google is exceptionally good at getting their people to trade their personal lives for their jobs. It's sad; otherwise I would be a lot more interested in working for them.
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ELC: Android and the community Posted Apr 15, 2010 17:17 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
This would make an awesome LWN article. "Google and the Mystery of the Disappearing Open Source Hackers."
Hoping someone with a keen sense of humor could write it.
ELC: Android and the community Posted Apr 15, 2010 17:34 UTC (Thu) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]
Also look at "Google and the Mystery of the Disappearing AI Researcher"
ELC: Android and the community Posted Apr 15, 2010 19:16 UTC (Thu) by cdibona (subscriber, #13739) [Link]
Which shows someone has let his journal subscriptions lapse. Similarly, we've released upwards of 17m lines of code over the last 5 years. YEs, developers ebb and flow out of open source when they work here. I don't think that matters.
also:
AKPM is a google employee and osdl isn't paying his salary anymore.
If you actually are interested in reading further, Brad Fitz wrote the following on the topic:
http://brad.livejournal.com/2409049.html
It's pretty insightful.
ELC: Android and the community Posted Apr 15, 2010 23:00 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Oh, this was meant in good fun. Google's been an outstanding contributor to the industry and open source. (now if we could just get the Android team to avoid source drops...)
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ELC: Android and the community Posted Apr 16, 2010 0:00 UTC (Fri) by cdibona (subscriber, #13739) [Link]
Other sections:
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ELC: Android and the community Posted Apr 19, 2010 12:01 UTC (Mon) by lmb (subscriber, #39048) [Link]
The link to Brad's journal is indeed very interesting; thanks for that. It is not without irony to correlate his remedy for why people prefer the Google internal development environment with the discussion here - his request for making Open Source projects more accessible is exactly what people complain about with regard to Android. Foot -> mouth, I think. ;-)
Something like this Posted Apr 15, 2010 21:24 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] The grumpy editor's guide to disappearing inside Goog
Something like this Posted Apr 17, 2010 6:29 UTC (Sat) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143) [Link]
That was classic!
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