Author: carol3 Date: To: Andreas Kuckartz, The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] GSoC 2014 - Linphone Implementation ... ?
Andreas Kuckartz: > carol3@???:
>>>> What do you think about the implicit influence interference of
>>>> projects by google (also with GSoC)? For example the google partnership
>>>> with mozilla has the result that firefox phone depends more and more on
>>>> parts of android.
>
> I do not see much connection between the payments for the placement of
> Google search in Firefox and an alleged dependence of Firefox OS on
> "parts of Android" (which parts?).
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Platform/Architecture >
>>> The influence on... what exactly? :)
>>
>> i don´t know gsoc ... but normally google don´t give anything without
>> taking influence on it
>
> The main influence is the choice of projects. I am not aware of any
> additional influence on mentors or students (besides the fact that
> Google obeys certain legal obligations which unfortunately make it
> impossible for students or mentors from some countries to participate).
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
