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>> Google subsidizes them with money from ads.

if this is true, it's very temporary and very fickle. It is well known that Google rewards (1) big, new initiatives over maintaining long-running projects, and (2) things that power the cash machine over anything else.

Neither of these are good for the OSS ecosystem.






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