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The problem with this statement is that Cringely has no way of knowing this and the facts publicly available contradict his account. Just to give one example l
by TomOfTTB 17y ago
The problem with this statement is that Cringely has no way of knowing this and the facts publicly available contradict his account.
Just to give one example look at Steve Ballmer and Bing. Unless he's flat out lying he's going to spend 5% to 10% of Microsoft's operating income on Bing (http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/171648.asp http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/171648.asp). That's not exactly immaterial as Cringely claims.
- aboodman 17y agoAccording to Ohloh, there are 199 committers to Chromium: http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome/contributors?page=1 http://www.ohloh.net/p/chrome/contributors?page=1 A few of them probably don't work for Google, some are duplicates, but still nowhere near 20-30 people.
- andreyf 17y agoWow, that's an order of magnitude more than I expected... now I'm really curious how many full-time engineers Google pays to develop Chrome.
- blasdel 17y agoAll of that spending thus far has been on marketing / advertising bullshit. They're probably blowing piles of money on datacenters too, but they'd be doing that anyway even if the Bing thing never happened. They see Google doing it and feel left out!