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I wish Google could at least release the code of killed projects as opensource.

• exikyut 7y ago
  Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, Exterminate. "I am Dalek of Borg. These are not the 'Droids you're looking for. You never existed."
• londons_explore 7y ago
  Generally, Googles infrastructure is so unlike existing opensource systems that even if you had the sourcecode in-hand, the effort required to get it compiling and running while re-implementing all dependencies would be almost as much as starting from scratch. The opensourcing of Bazel and absl:: is a big start - but there are a lot of core Java libraries you'd be missing, and all the loadbalancing, identity, config and storage systems would all need shims to slightly-incompatible opensource solutions.