Google may be looking to give back to the world by opening parts of their source. Net4nowt.com is reporting that the internal Google project to do this was mentioned in a presentation to software engineering students in Melbourne, Australia. This could be anything from massively parallel, high-availability, fault-tolerant server software, to the code that powers their various web APIs, to anything else that is behind their kick-ass search engine.
Before anyone gets all excited, I haven't been able to find much independent verification of this. I believe the presentation may have been a seminar on June 18th at the department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. However, the seminar description doesn't mention anything on this topic. Anyone know of anything to back this up?
Via LXer.