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by tikhonj 5242 days ago
The biggest difference is that GSOC does not support Google directly. Plenty of the projects Google supports this way are not even useful to them at all: for example, a silly 3D game I used to play was part of the program for three years. Internships are great, and there are some open source companies that have really neat ones (Mozilla comes to mind), but most small projects run by volunteers can't afford to pay for an intern themselves.