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Google is made of thousands of engineers (and other employees). Most of these engineers love to solve cool stuff (well, while getting paid for it, of course).
by yongjik 11y ago
Google is made of thousands of engineers (and other employees). Most of these engineers love to solve cool stuff (well, while getting paid for it, of course). And, being engineers, when they think they found a particularly cool solution to a cool problem, they would love to talk about it to everyone else. Google has to actively police its own engineers to keep their mouth shut (just like any other company would).
Engineers want to talk about their ingenious solutions. Google wants to keep them happy (as long as it doesn't cost too much), because otherwise they will just leave and join Facebook. No need to imagine a conflict of interest where none are.
(Yes, yes, I know they are not legally engineers according to some laws in some part of the world.)
- bawana 11y agoThe concept of keeping secrets does not apply to companies who are their own best customer. Witness Amazon putting AWS out there for dirt cheap. Witness github and all the open sourcing. Witness Microsoft and its open sourcing. Witness Apple open sourcing part of its OS. The publication of 'secrets' is no longer revealing the company jewels. Secrets are so complex and the infrastructure is so large, that the best people who know their value, flaws and shortcomings are the owners! It would have been like AT&T revealing the 'secret' of their network switch. Who else could possibly use it. Or western electric revealing the 'secret' of their wire.