Why wouldn't almost every engineer have access to almost the entire repo? Most of Google's code is only relevant to another company working at Google scale, suc

Why wouldn't almost every engineer have access to almost the entire repo? Most of Google's code is only relevant to another company working at Google scale, such as Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc. These are the companies with deep pockets that are willing to spend lots of money to acquire technology that will help them compete with Google. But none of these companies will buy code that's been stolen from Google. The most famous corporate trade secret, the Coke formula, was stolen by two employees who attempted to sell it to Pepsi. Pepsi alerted Coke, the companies worked together to bring in the FBI, and both employees went to prison: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/23/coca.cola.sentencing/ http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/05/23/coca.cola.sentencing/