Well it certainly was built for some future product, but it was probably released as open source solely so an engineer could have "community contributions" on their promo packet.
I don't believe this would count as a community contribution, which is generally I believe about contributions to Google's community.
While I don't think it's a bad career move, and that may have been part of their consideration, I find the trivialization of the work put in by someone here to open source something they thought would be a positive contribution hurtful.
While I don't think it's a bad career move, and that may have been part of their consideration, I find the trivialization of the work put in by someone here to open source something they thought would be a positive contribution hurtful.