First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It

Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by drewg123 on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:20PM (#14379438)

The first rule of almost any project at Google is not to talk about it. It the only job I've ever had where I could not tell my wife anything about my work, aside from how lunch was. My wife joked that Google was almost as paranoid as the DoD or NSA, and thought it was very presumptuous of them to force so much secrecy.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by rckclmbr on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:28PM (#14379488)

Have you worked at any other public company? It's pretty common to not share private company information...

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by drewg123 on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:51PM (#14379915)

There's private, and there's Google.. I work at Netflix now, and we are quite open in my area. Eg, I can tell my wife what I'm working on, ask her to proof-read my presentations, show her the office, etc.

Before Google, I worked for a privately held company, and it was quite a bit more open as well.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by spun on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:25PM (#14379467)

I had the same experience at Amazon with their secret projects, including each iteration of their kindle fires

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by johansch on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:26PM (#14379792)

Yeah, every company kinda does this. It seems like most of the the time it's a combination of:

a) we have no idea if this is unique or not (hint: a Kindle Fire revision probably isn't)

b) it makes things seem more exciting.

The weird thing about Fuchsia is that all of the development is done in the open, but noone wants to give any context.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by posixplz on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:44PM (#14379893)

Well if the company is publicly traded, secrecy of internal matters is a legal requirement and contingency of employment.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by johansch on Friday May 19, 2017 @06:52PM (#14379920)

By default, certainly.

Btw: In February I spent some time looking at the then about 100 committers to Fuchsia/Flutter. Some quite impressive names. I think Fuchsia is a really serious effort in the Chrome team.

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Re:First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About It by gsnedders on Friday May 19, 2017 @10:02PM (#14380654)

> I think Fuchsia is a really serious effort in the Chrome team.

There's definitely a lot of ex-Chrome people there, but I don't think it follows that it is in any way in the Chrome team. I'm still curious as to why all of them are essentially creating a new OS, though! Quite the departure from what they've worked on before (and many have been working on the web for two decades).

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