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Those are essentially what I meant: Google building on Google infrastructure makes their shuttered web apps nearly impossible to open source. An app you downlo
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Those are essentially what I meant: Google building on Google infrastructure makes their shuttered web apps nearly impossible to open source.
An app you download and install from Steam that runs on your PC... pretty straightforward. They have to remove the SteamVR library, but it's available for you to plug it in yourself.
- tjohns 6y agoEven client-side apps can link to lots of proprietary dependencies or require internal tooling that a company is not willing (or sometimes just not staffed) to opensource.
- Ajedi32 6y agoYep, looks like they put in a non-trivial amount of work replacing proprietary libraries in order to make this possible: https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush#systems-that-were-replaced-or-removed-when-open-sourcing-tilt-brush https://github.com/googlevr/tilt-brush#systems-that-were-rep...
- philsnow 6y agothere was an effort at one point to write internal things on (internal) google app engine, which would make open sourcing more straightforward, but I don't know how far that got.