[anonuser123456]

They aren’t doing it out of the goodness of their heart. It’s a pain in the butt to maintain out of tree changes. Getting code upstreamed means less maintenance work.

[buttersbrian]

So? If it benefits OSS and Google, what do you care?

Companies, who make up a sizable portion of OSS commits, do it because their interests align. Why is this different, and suspicious or malicious?

[zhobbs]

In my experience the types of developers building this stuff are personally fans of open source and companies are willing to let them submit upstream due to PR wins and limited downside.

[mav3rick]

So ? Upstream also benefits. Just because it's Google bring on every negative point of view

[jasonvorhe]

So you're basically saying that all of OSS is primarily held together because the interests of various companies align somewhere?

Sounds perfect.