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This is standard incumbent behaviour, it’s been happening forever. Any company that gets to a significant size or scale will behave in the same way, and that in
by albertgoeswoof 7y ago
This is standard incumbent behaviour, it’s been happening forever. Any company that gets to a significant size or scale will behave in the same way, and that includes Sourcegraph, gitlab and anyone else.
- HenriNext 7y agoThat is just not true. Many market dominating companies/products aim for the exact opposite: try to be "platform" instead of "product". For example Google Apps and Salesforce.
- syshum 7y agoI dont know enough about Saleforce But Google Apps is not a good exampe of "openess" Google is historic about closing off Dev and API Access (See Nest product line), Removing Open protocol from services (i.e removing XMPP from Chat and Hangouts), and killing products that have more open API's replacing them with less open ones
- HenriNext 7y agoBut i wasn't talking about Google. I was talking about Google Apps. Your examples are about other divisions of Alphabet/Google... ...When you deal with the tech giants they are so large that different divisions commonly have totally different goals and ethos; some divisions are transparent and great to work with, others are pure nightmare.