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	   GOISTI - (Google international successfull troll institute)

2012-01-01								[draft]
	
Kens impression: 
	http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8429/7496482262_3303fc53ec_o.gif

Today Google has following working products: 
	
	(THANK'S TO BIG GIANT COLLECTIVE TROLL!!)

	Go language vs PL/1,C/C++/Java
	Android vs Tizen/IPhone
	Dalvik vs J9/Hotspot
	Chromium OS vs MS Dos/Ubuntu/Fedora
	BigTable vs Oracle/PostgreSQL/MySQL	
	VP8 vs H.264 
	Google TV vs Sony/Samsung/technologies
	Google search engine vs Gerard Salton (1960-90s)/Ted Nelson/Archie(1990)
	Gtalk vs Skype/MSN
	Chrome browser vs Firefox/Midori

	Machine translation vs Moses
	Text to speech vs existing
	Speech to text vs existing
	Google web products vs existing
	G+ vs existing facebook	
	Plan9front vs Unix (on going, no driver)
	More... vs same thing existing

The tables below, list some of Google's eclectic mix of open source luminaries 
grouped by project. No doubt I've forgotten some, so don't hesitate to contact 
me with corrections/additions. 

Missing
=======
James Gosling 		Java Creator, dalvik/java support
Andy Rubin		Apple, MSN TV, Android came in

Python			Huge Community + Write less get more 
=======			====================================
Guido Van Rossum	Python creator
Alex Martelli		Python Cookbook, ...
Brett Cannon		Python
Jeremy Hylton		Zope
Neal Norwitz		PyChecker
Collin Winter		functional, unladen swallow
Mark Pilgrim		Books, libs
Anthony Baxter		release manager, libs
Jim Hugunin		numeric, jython, ironpython

Unix/Unix-Like		Energy/Dominant
==============		===============
Ken Thompson		UNIX, UTF8
Rob Pike		UNIX, UTF8
Russ Cox		Plan9, RE2
Eric Grosse		Plan9, Netlib
Eric Schmidt 		(CEO)	Lex
Murray Stokely		FreeBSD core team
Nik Clayton		FreeBSD docs, ...
Amit Singh		OS X system stuff
Frank Mayhar		UNIX kernel stuff

Community relations	Dominant
===================	========
Chris DiBona		from Slashdot
Andy Hertzfeld		from Apple, Eazel
Jason Robbins		tigris.org
Tim Bray		from Sun
Zaheda Bhorat		from Openoffice
Zach Brown		Kernel Traffic

Linux Kernel		Huge Community
============		==============
Andrew Morton	 
Daniel Phillips	 
Ted T'so	 
Ross Biro	 
Paul Menage	 
Richard Gooch	 
Tom Herbert		Networking
Eric Dumazet		Networking
Tejun Heo	

Subversion
==========		
Ben Collins-Sussman	 
Brian W. Fitzpatrick	 
Daniel Berlin	 
Greg Stein	 
Peter Lundblad	 
Eric Gillespie

Mozilla / Chromium
==================
Ben Goodger	 
Darin Fisher	 
Brian Ryner	 
Fritz Schneider	 
Mike Pinkerton	 
Aaron Boodman	GreaseMonkey
Eric Seidel	WebKit
Peter Beverloo	WebKit
John Barton	Firebug

Gimp			No Photoshop/Graphics guru's
====			=============================
Raph Levien		Gimp, Ghostscript, ...
Peter Mattis		Gimp
Spencer Kimball		Gimp, Gnutella

Gnome			Community
======			==========
Robert Love		Gnome/kernel/books
Jon Trowbridge		Gnome/beagle
Behdad Esfahbod		Gnome, HarfBuzz, ...

Gnu
===
Ian Lance Taylor	GNU toolchain
Roland McGrath		GNU Make, glibc, ...
Diego Novillo		GCC optimization

AWK                     Programming language (influenced TCL, LUA, Perl)
===                     =====================
Peter Weinberger	aWk

Internet                Father of inernet
========                =================
Vint Cerf		TCP/IP

Misc
=====
Junio Hamano		git
Stuart Feldman		Make
Ronald S. Bultje	ffmpeg
Glen Murphy		Browser stuff
Tim Hockin		linux system utils
Bram Moolenaar		Vim

Udi Manber		Glimpse
Josh MacDonald		PRCS, xdelta, GTK+
Sean Egan		Pidgin
Scott James Remnant	dpkg, upstart, ...
Craig Silverstein	distcc, ...
Dan Kegel		Wine, crosstool, ...
Daniel Ehrenberg	Factor
Joe Gregorio		Atom, python libs

Han-Wen Nienhuys	Lilypond
Bruno Albuquerque	openBFS
T. V. Raman		Emacspeak
Ben Laurie		openssl, apache-ssl
Neil Fraser		diff-match-patch, ...
Bernie Innocenti	OLPC

Avery Pennarun		bup, redo, ...
Adam Langley		ObsTCP
Michal Zalewski		security tools
Tavis Ormandy		security tools
Chris Evans		vsftpd, security ...

James Youngman		findutils, ...
Brad Fitzpatrick	web server tools
David Reveman		compiz, XGL
Jean-loup Gailly	zlib
Martin Pool		distcc, launchpad, ...
Jeremy Allison		Samba

Project	Students	Amount
================	=======
SoC 2005	 400	$2.0M
SoC 2006	 600	$3.0M
SoC 2007	 900	$4.5M
SoC 2008	1125	$5.6M
SoC 2009	1000	$5.0M
SoC 2010	1025	$5.6M
SoC 2011	1116	$6.1M