> like some other large companies do and only release software that isn't used in our most successful products Closure Compiler [1], GWT [2], and protobufs [3]

> like some other large companies do and only release software that isn't used in our most successful products Closure Compiler [1], GWT [2], and protobufs [3] would like to have a word... I realize they said "some" large companies, but it seems like there's plenty of precedent for successful tech companies to release core infrastructure as open source. [1] https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/ https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/ [2] http://www.gwtproject.org/ http://www.gwtproject.org/ [3] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/ https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/