[slackoverflower]

That's like McDonalds giving away food. Or Ford giving away cars. Google's business quite literally is data.

[gspetr]

> McDonalds giving away food.

Not the best example. McDonalds is so much more than food:

http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-beyo...

[rmc]

Sure, but Google does claim to be an open company, and giving things back.

[puzzle]

Among other things, they open sourced the Ceres library, which the imaging pipeline relies on.