Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Jan 22 12:04:03 CST 2014
Many companies build their whole business around OSS and its development. Some companies dip into the OS community for particular pieces of information and code. Google uses OSS extensively but does contribute back most of it enhancements, either as free code or OS code...like the browser Chrome to Chromium. Facebook has contributed much as it is built upon open source software. Neo4j, graphic database is one of a number of DBs: (http://www.neo4j.org/?gclid=CIrXmpmokrwCFc9afgodIXoAfg) and then there is Microsoft. It contributed heavily in building OpenSuse Linux, adding VS and C# to Linux in the form of Mono: (http://mono-project.com/Main_Page) and of course their Hyper-V server: (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205299.aspx). One company who has heavily relied on the OSS community and appears to have made little contribution back to it, is Amazon. The following article speaks to those concerns: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/22/amazon_open_source_investigation/ Jim