Google is one of the world's leading search engines and quickly becoming a leader in the web services industry. From their website, "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The OSL shares in this mission by organizing the resources of the Open Source community, making it easier for developers to focus on writing code.
Google sponsors the OSL through financial grants. This funding helps the OSL to provide the community with physical hosting, bandwidth, and to cover the cost of "smart-hands" support. Google is a big supporter of the Open Source movement, producing open code of their own (see code.google.com), and sponsoring the Summer of Code program. Each year Google puts millions of dollars towards Open Source research and development through this program.
