Re: Call for Debian projects and mentors in Google Summer of Code 2026

On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 09:57:28PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
> On 2025-12-09 08:15, [email protected] wrote:
> >> On Saturday, December 6, 2025 8:05:52 AM Mountain Standard Time Christian 
> >> Kastner wrote:
> >>> I can criticize Google for a lot of things, but GSoC gets only praise
> >>> from me.
> > 
> > For me, that goes too far: it is their way to extend their "soft power",
> > and thus deserves to be seen critically.
> FWIW, with my remark about GSoC I meant "I didn't find things to be
> critical of, but many things to speak positively about", and not "it
> should not be criticized". They absolutely should.

Then we are roughly on the same page, yes :)

For GSOC, as for all such donations, my worry is always the creation
of dependencies.

Cheers
-- 
tomás

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