A whole TWO developers, eh? For the OS at the foundation of the Android machine that lets their advertising network blanket the Earth and collect/market the personal data of billions of peop^H^H^H^H subjects.
I doubt they care about the security of Android, other than maybe keeping others from horning in on their revenue stream on a large scale.
But Linux is also the foundation of their internet empire, and given their internal data stores, they are no doubt a huge target of hackers the world over. I'd be surprised if they only pay two developers to secure it, but a lot of that security is probably specific to their own in-house distro.
Two developers, if sufficiently skilled and experienced, can make a huge difference to projects of many different sizes. If they are good enough, they may prove very useful indeed.
But hey, if you want to be a sarcastic, ungrateful person, that is up to you.
I look forward to hearing about what the two developers accomplish a lot more than I do any further comment from you, if we are to talk about relative value.
Depends what they are working on. Maybe Google has some specific feature in mind and there is only enough work for 2 people, or they are the two experts doing the research/ground work and it may get added to later.
Also they probably need to ramp up slowly, so they can integrate with the Linux development process. Kernel maintainers don't really like big code dumps that make huge changes or add major features out of the blue, so throwing 100 developers at it right now likely wouldn't work.
They don't need to ramp up. Google has already been paying them to do this work, now they are just posting PR about it in the hope that we will love them.
But corporate pragmatism doesn't impress me, and Google is still working on replacing Linux in their mobile OS which will make it less useful to me, so fucking meh.
Jeez...nice set of priorities there (Score:3, Insightful)
A whole TWO developers, eh? For the OS at the foundation of the Android machine that lets their advertising network blanket the Earth and collect/market the personal data of billions of peop^H^H^H^H subjects.
Gee, thanks.
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Hey they're complying with the GPL. This is what RMS wanted.
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I doubt they care about the security of Android, other than maybe keeping others from horning in on their revenue stream on a large scale.
But Linux is also the foundation of their internet empire, and given their internal data stores, they are no doubt a huge target of hackers the world over. I'd be surprised if they only pay two developers to secure it, but a lot of that security is probably specific to their own in-house distro.
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A whole TWO developers, eh?
Two developers, if sufficiently skilled and experienced, can make a huge difference to projects of many different sizes. If they are good enough, they may prove very useful indeed.
But hey, if you want to be a sarcastic, ungrateful person, that is up to you.
I look forward to hearing about what the two developers accomplish a lot more than I do any further comment from you, if we are to talk about relative value.
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Depends what they are working on. Maybe Google has some specific feature in mind and there is only enough work for 2 people, or they are the two experts doing the research/ground work and it may get added to later.
Also they probably need to ramp up slowly, so they can integrate with the Linux development process. Kernel maintainers don't really like big code dumps that make huge changes or add major features out of the blue, so throwing 100 developers at it right now likely wouldn't work.
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They don't need to ramp up. Google has already been paying them to do this work, now they are just posting PR about it in the hope that we will love them.
But corporate pragmatism doesn't impress me, and Google is still working on replacing Linux in their mobile OS which will make it less useful to me, so fucking meh.
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That's a lot more than Amazon provides, and look how heavily they depend on Linux.