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Re:Google dealt setback in age bias case by judge interested... by honkhonkpants on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:07PM (#12662206)
The number of googlers who meaningfully "use" homebrew in the course of their work is probably 4 or another figure similarly close to zero, which should therefore be treated as zero. If it didn't exist and someone needed it, they would write it in a week.

The number of googlers with Macs is not even 90% so this line of argument is just silly.

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Re:Google dealt setback in age bias case by judge interested... by ryanobjc on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:10PM (#12662692)
As an engineer at Google, this comment is correct. Some teams use it, but since most the development happens on Linux desktops, and not Macs, therefore Homebrew is not as commonly used as normal dev shops.

Basically the internal dev environment is already fully complete and works great. It's ultra custom and there are strict rules about bringing in open source code. The AGPL and GPL3 are good, but also one has to be wary about them in a commercial environment.

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