Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by ekianjo on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @11:07PM
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So their strategy is to go full-blown closed source?
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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS
by antoncohen on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @11:50PM
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The OS Fuchsia, including the kernel Magenta, appears to be open source, mostly under BSD 3-clause, with parts of the kernel under MIT and similar licenses.
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/master/LICENSE
K8s is Apache 2.0. Who's to say they don't open the whole project when ready as they have in other cases?
Source: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/LICENSE
Open sourcing the product will help the competition to catch up quickly, all they have to do is take googles product and change its look. The next half is infrastructure, which companies like Microsoft, facebook, amazon, alibaba all have. Plus services like AWS will help future version of dropbox & netflix.
A good example of that is Visual code. I am sure some at github (atom's paprent) is pissed.
Wikipedia says it's not a fork of atom but based on electron. Does that make a difference?
VS code is MIT licensed although... And standalone web app in a slightly modified browser window isn't a high moat.
I mean they just hate GPL, not open source. Just look at the removal of BlueZ GPL library in 2012.