Of course, Google is known most for its seven-, eight-, nine-, and 10-figure-plus financial movements. But this transfer is particularly noteworthy in that it enhances OSL’s ability to continue supporting projects of open design. One need only look at examples of past projects given space to develop within the lab to see the value in such a contribution. Mozilla Firefox, OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), Apache Web server, the Linux Foundation infrastructure, are all names which have either passed through or been cultivated there. It is currently headed by six full-time employees and 12 student employees.
Open source has for years been a label experiencing a continual ebb and flow of lesser and greater notability. Yet it keeps on keeping on, as it were. Indeed, the most famous title in the land of the digitally free is Firefox. That is due to its extensibility, quickly and well-refined security parameters, and a concerted grassroots effort to challenge the dominance of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, an arguably inferior product, through populist campaigns to grow its install base. The record-breaking success affixed to the debut of Version 3 of the browser only emphasizes the point.
Linux, in its various forms and flavors, endures as a result of a similar people-powered push for attention, development, and, thus, progress.
Apache, while not an everyday term for the everyday Web user, it is employed by the connected class in droves. It is leading Web server technology employed today, serving 49.12% of all websites presently online (circa June 2008).
So if history serves as a model for what may well emerge from its doors somewhere in the future, the Open Source Lab proves important to sustain. Google’s renewed investment makes that possible. The last grant issued by Google was given in 2005.
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