Google announced in April 2010 that they would hire two employees to work with the Linux kernel community, but Greg Kroah-Hartman, the current Linux kernel maintainer for the stable branch, said in December 2010 that he was concerned that Google was no longer trying to get their code changes included in mainstream Linux.
Google於2010年4月宣布他們將會聘請兩名員工跟Linux內核社團合作，但目前Linux內核對於穩定分支維護者的葛雷格·克羅哈曼，他於2010年12月說他擔心Google不再試圖讓他們的代碼更改包含在主流Linux中。