Not everything a company does has to bring in revenue (make financial sense).
This is literally the type of stuff I daydream about... "Here, I've got all this computing infrastructure, isn't it cool? Tell you what, use it for free!"
That's awesome. I guess I was kindof asking if I was missing the point or something. Are there really people at google who are saying "Listen, boss, I'm going to need $money to build google font library. I'm going to need $foo engineers, and $bar resources, but we should do this because it would be fun!"
And their boss goes "huh, cool! Yeah, here is some money!"
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