Google to go open source?

Well, not quite. But in a presentation to students at Melbourne, Australia vice president of engineering Wayne Rosing has hinted that its time for the company to give something back.

Craig Silverstein, technical director at Google has started a project to look at Google code and to figure out what parts they can give back.

Rosing commented it is not fair for Google to draw smart people from all over the world and “just keep it all for ourselves”.

The news came as part of a presentation to software engineering students at Melbourne as Google considers the city to be home to a regional research and development centre in an effort to tripple its global workforce from 700 to 2100 over the next 12 months.

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