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They should just sell their dead products. I know they don't need money, but someone could probably maintain the Cloud Print codebase and add value to the world
by zelly 7y ago
They should just sell their dead products. I know they don't need money, but someone could probably maintain the Cloud Print codebase and add value to the world.
- bobongo 7y agoThey would mean selling all documents ever printed using their product.
- slig 7y agoI've heard numerous times about how everything inside Google is so tightly coupled to their infrastructure that making it work outside is extremely difficult.
- shadowgovt 7y agoIt's true. Trying to isolate a specific product and deploy it independently if it's grown up "organically" inside Google's core infrastructure is like trying to take an animal from the rainforest and air-drop it into Antarctica with a "good luck" and a smile.
- brandmeyer 7y agoIt wouldn't be practical. The great advantage of the monorepo is that it encourages teams to use libraries from almost anywhere in the company. One disadvantage is that it makes splitting out those codebases almost impossible.
- archgoon 7y agoHas happened though; Niantic for example.
- gowld 7y agoNiantic was an "internal startup", more like an X project than part of Google borg. It didn't integrate with major infrastructure like GSuite. It ran on AppEngine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12607874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12607874