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> Worth preserving as part of Internet history. Can't Facebook just issue a takedown request and have these files removed?
by joeblau 7y ago
> Worth preserving as part of Internet history.
Can't Facebook just issue a takedown request and have these files removed?
- riffraff 7y agowhat for? It's not like it would be particularly dangerous to see code which is 13 year old.
- ocdtrekkie 7y agoIt’s worth noting that Windows occasionally is inflicted by discovered vulnerabilities that are over twenty years old. Not sure how applicable that would be to Facebook’s codebase over this much time. But worth noting.
- giarc 7y agoJust look at Swift and all the Cocoa classes. Many are prefixed with NS, which comes from the NeXTSTEP days.
- munk-a 7y agoPretty sure all their code is intensely different now - they did write the HHVM engine in 2011 and I wouldn't be surprised if they ported as much logic as possible to that and added strict typing over it all.
- fkfaduc 7y agoI'm not even sure they could do that. What would be the difference between that and some megacorp issuing a takedown-request for an internal document leaked by the press?
- ceejayoz 7y agoIt wouldn't be worth the cost of the letter. This code's as valuable as a Blockbuster card by now.
- veeralpatel979 7y agoHow would it help them? I _highly_ doubt they are running this code in production today.