I could care less about other companies that have existed for 5 minutes in the SaaS space in my comment that nobody has ever derived more value and given that, contributed less back.
Google is built on an end run around the spirit and intent of the GPL. "Don't distribute software, distribute thin client access to it! No GPL! Hurrah! Money!"
Decide for yourself what you think of that but it happened. Without it, no google.
But hey, list anyone you think derived more value and contributed less back. It's a reasonable thing to do. Doesn't affect criticism of google.
Google is built on an end run around the spirit and intent of the GPL. "Don't distribute software, distribute thin client access to it! No GPL! Hurrah! Money!"
Decide for yourself what you think of that but it happened. Without it, no google.
But hey, list anyone you think derived more value and contributed less back. It's a reasonable thing to do. Doesn't affect criticism of google.