alt Hacker NewsSo if you subtract linux and LLVM and Webkit and Java, what is left of Google? Absolutely nothing. Well, a mostly empty, dysfunctional mono repo lacking the main dependencies.
So if you subtract linux and LLVM and Webkit and Java, what is left of Google? Absolutely nothing. Well, a mostly empty, dysfunctional mono repo lacking the main dependencies.
I don't think the company would be very different if these projects had never existed and everyone had to pay for proprietary tools.
The people meaningfully benefiting from open source are the people and companies on the margin, not the biggest tech companies in the world.