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Ahh the old "We've partnered with one of the largest proprietary software developers in the world to somehow improve open source things" trope never gets old.

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Google is also one of the largest open source developers in the world, too.

So partnering with Google on Open Source can make a lot of sense.

But it's in vogue to hate everything Google does on HN at the moment, so oh well.

While the comment you are replying to does sound a bit cynical. The reality is HF already signed similar agreements with AWS and Azure several months ago.

I imagine that there’s not much Hugging Face can do about it if they’re getting pressure to make money by their investors.

"We've partnered with $company, but we don't really know what that means, so stay tuned" is the oldest PR stunt ever.

if google is largest proprietary software developer, which company is not?

all the other ones, hence "largest".

how sure are you that google is ranking lowest by contributions to open source projects ?

I mean pedantically, both things could be simultaneously true:

Company XYZ is the largest developer of proprietary software

Company XYZ is the largest contributor to open source

If we're talking about raw amounts, not %-of-company's-output

Look, I know this is going to paint me as the stereotypical "Pedantic HN commentor", but sincerely, the only response to

"if google is largest proprietary software developer, which company is not?"

is "all the other ones".

I promise I'm not being purposefully obtuse, I really can't find any other meaning to that comment.

I really don't know how Google "ranks" w.r.t OSS contributions.

I think there is a language issue here (doesn’t seem like English is their first language?), so I suspect the original comments intent was different than what it actually says

Your original question leaves no other answer, rephrase perhaps.

can't it is looked, should have put more thought before typing, others already pointed out what I intended to say.

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