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Re:Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB by pjmlp on Monday October 17, 2016 @05:30PM (#12729960)
In all those cases I was aware of, the versions were never upgraded, they were frozen to the one used when the project started.
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Re:Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB by johan_larson on Monday October 17, 2016 @07:04PM (#12730633)
I don't know the details, but the teams at Google responsible for supporting their version of Linux and their C++ compiler sometimes mentioned making contributions to the common codebases. I got the impression they didn't make all of their fixes public, though.
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Re:Open Source is not dead: On the recent demise of RethinkDB by pjmlp on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @01:43AM (#12732386)
Sure, but companies like Google, Facebook and others are the outliers anyway.

What matters are all those companies that no one heard of, or whose business has nothing to do with producing software.

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