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Google is "giving away" Go in order to get en ecosystem, which means they can offload training to a community and maybe even get code from external.

They give away Chrome for spreading it and giving them control over web standards.

AT&T gives UNIX away as they have no revenue stream on top of it and it being research.

Google isn't giving out their research work.



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