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The skeptic in me points at android and deduces that the whole focus of Google open source is skewing ecosystems towards google revenue and or hiring models.

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The focus of Go's open source project is making a language that works well for the kind of networked software Google and many other companies write, roughly "cloud software". I am not sure what ecosystem that would skew toward Google revenue: maybe cloud providers, but Go works just as well on Amazon and Azure and Heroku as it does on Google's products. I am not sure what "hiring models" means, but I've literally never thought about anything related to the hiring process while working on Go.

For more about Go and open source, see my opening gophercon keynote, at blog.golang.org/open-source.

Thanks for taking the time to make a sincere rebuttal.

I don't understand this. How is enabling Go to run on android skewing the ecosystem? You'd rather them not allow it?

Sorry, I see why that was unclear. Android is a different example of the behavior OP was observing:

Why is there a massive skew favoring Googlers having their proposals implemented compared to plebes?

The AOSP acceptance decisions are made by Google employees. You are free to fork android, but Google favors features that are aligned with their objectives for the platform. See this thread for a tangible example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803118

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