Google and Open Source

[Shayne]

 Google has decided to release a few of its better projects under the BSD2 licence on souceforge.  This has some great potential as they release more and more tools.  I know that they use MySQL in many areas of their company, and im curious what kind of mods they might have available.

Anyways, i thought this was very interesting, ive highlighted the cool part...

Why did you choose these particular projects?
    Well, several reasons, actually.

    ? Google Engineers picked them.
        You may have heard about 20% time, in which Google engineers are encouraged to work on a personal project one day out of the week. Open Source interests a lot of Google developers, so we thought taking advantage of this program was a good way to prepare code for release and maintenance.
    ? They make future releases possible.
        The programs we've chosen are all what we consider infrastructural programs. By releasing these tools, we will be able to release more software that relies on them later.
    ? These are the ones that were ready first.

More info can be had here code.google.com

[Mod: Just fixed your link.]