Why Open Source Developers Can be More Productive, and Other Tales from a Google Open House

“Yesterday Google celebrated the opening of a larger Cambridge,
Massachusetts office, which takes up a substantial part of a
building right next to the Kendall/MIT subway stop in the
higher-than-high tech area of East Cambridge. I got a look at their
new Friend Connect service (covered in a related Radar blog) and
heard some fascinating comments that the staff kindly let me
reproduce here.

“Google staff certainly know how to say the right things and
react in ways I approve to the situations Google finds itself in.
More and more people I know (including authors) are Google
employees, which is statistically predictable because more and more
people in general are Google employees. The Cambridge office has
been growing wildly since it began with the purchase of the company
that created Android. And this office is one of 45 Google offices
around the world…”

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