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Started as 20% project from a Google employee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk

by ithkuil 12y ago

Started as 20% project from a Google employee. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkut_B%C3%BCy%C3%BCkk%C3%B6kte... Perhaps it depends on too much of the internal infrastructure they wouldn't want to sell?

judk 12y ago
Legally, it was created at Google. Technically, Orkut software was copied from the startup that Orkut the person was hired from.
- masters3d 12y ago
  They should open source it.
  - icebraining 12y ago
    It probably would take too much effort to make it usable without Google's internal APIs (storage, search, etc).
    - masters3d 12y ago
      They could open source it and have other people use app engine if people want to use it. Otherwise if its open source people could implement what ever they want on the back end.
      - cbr 12y ago
        App Engine is very different from the internal APIs most production services depend on.