I used to work at Google at the time that Go was created, and these are my own observations. Google isn't making zillions off Go. Google makes zillions off advertising and is trying to make money other ways, but not always very successfully. Go really was designed as a nice to use systems language and released to the community with good intentions. I've been gone from Google for a long time, but as an external observer now, I don't see them trying to subvert it in some self serving way. Look at how Oracle went after Java users for an example of what companies can do. Do you see any evidence of Google trying to position Go to make them zillions of bucks?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 8:08 PM Space A. <reexist...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google invested in a tool for themselves, which helped a lot in getting > some zillions of bucks as return. Corps open smth to communities not > because they a "good", but because at some point they smart enough to make > others work for free. There is no reason to keep implementation of > programming language closed. Mean time there is no cross-platform library > for GUI (in spite that it's called "general purpose language", not > "language for servers and cli" as it looks like), and door to Android is > closed. But you can say thank you for DART language and Flutter. > > > On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 8:49:10 PM UTC+3, B Carr wrote: >> >> Google has spent and is spending 10s of millions of $$$ on the >> development of Go and all while continuously giving it away without strings >> attached. >> >> And people have so much free time they complain about a tiny symbol in >> the upper left corner of the golang.org website? >> >> Thank you to the Go Developers, Go Contributors and Google! >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/4e4c0718-8673-420e-8826-398383300f4d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/4e4c0718-8673-420e-8826-398383300f4d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CA%2Bv29LsZ-Wb2uH2YKJLVNpuN0%3DAumcv7Pj73poQAtpj5xT64aw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
