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> One way to see this is to realize that code bases on their own are generally worthless in the sense that people rarely pay much money for them. They pay for u
by ZephyrBlu 4y ago
> One way to see this is to realize that code bases on their own are generally worthless in the sense that people rarely pay much money for them. They pay for users. They pay for teams. But they don't generally pay for raw code
This is something I've thought for a while. If Google's source code was leaked tomorrow, would it even matter? Almost certainly not, and most people probably couldn't do much with it either.
- oceanplexian 4y agoI’ve worked at another FAANG, and I used to joke all the time that if our code leaked it would give us a competitive advantage because the folks copying would have to spend so much time implementing our bloated code and god-awful build tools that they would probably go bankrupt.
- wpietri 4y agoOh my god. Kubernetes is a plot!