Whenever big tech companies like Meta do useful things like support Overture Maps Foundation (which is also supported by Microsoft and Amazon) they are doing it to blunt some competitive advantage another tech company has, such as google in this case. They support open source insofar as they can’t monetize whatever they are open sourcing.
You know it’s getting weird out there when Meta seems to be doing something that’s actually useful.
They’ve been doing useful engineering things since the start, it’s just that it pales in comparison to all the bad things
they ain’t doing it for us, they’re doing it for themselves.
Whenever big tech companies like Meta do useful things like support Overture Maps Foundation (which is also supported by Microsoft and Amazon) they are doing it to blunt some competitive advantage another tech company has, such as google in this case. They support open source insofar as they can’t monetize whatever they are open sourcing.
ZSTD and BTRFS, among many other smaller things, hello?