Latest Release Of Linux Contains Code Developed Via Google Plus

Posted by lordpenguin on Apr 16, 2012 2:44 PM EDT
thepowerbase.com; By Tom Nardi
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Say what you will about the mainstream viability of Google Plus, but anyone who has spent even a few days on Google’s rapidly developing social network can tell you that the userbase seems unusually knowledgeable and tech-savvy. There have been numerous posts and articles attempting to explain this phenomena, but the most...

Say what you will about the mainstream viability of Google Plus, but anyone who has spent even a few days on Google’s rapidly developing social network can tell you that the userbase seems unusually knowledgeable and tech-savvy. There have been numerous posts and articles attempting to explain this phenomena, but the most common theory seems likely enough: the early invitations were given out to primarily technical users (developers, tech journalists, etc), and they predictably shared their invites with like-minded individuals.

Whatever the reason, today we see the direct result of the legions of developers and hackers on Google Plus: code developed through the comments in a Google Plus post has officially made it into Linux 3.4-rc3.

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