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Totally! You could steal any big tech companies entire source code and it wouldn't do you much good in replicating it as you would realize most of it is entire
by mrep 8y ago
Totally! You could steal any big tech companies entire source code and it wouldn't do you much good in replicating it as you would realize most of it is entirely dependent on thousands of internal services maintained from that source code that depend on each other and if each one is not running on the companies specific infrastructure it is designed to run on, it won't work. Also, all those services are dependent on the companies internal company specific server hardware and network designs that take years to plan, buy, and build which by the time you did, would be out of date.
- akqu 8y agoI think that is an underappreciated point. What makes a lot of open source software productive only exists in proprietary code, infrastructure and knowledge guarded as a competitive advantage at large companies. I have never really understood why companies like that gets so much open source credit while someone independently trying to make a living shipping a proprietary product for an open source system, making that system more attractive, gets a lot of hate.