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Re:Unleashing Open-Source Silicon by beatgammit on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:23PM (#21635133)
You mean, kind of like Android, Google Docs, etc? Google makes its money by charging for add-ons to those products (space on Google Drive, Play store for Android, etc), not from those products directly. I see no reason why Google would be hurt by open sourcing those products, yet they don't, and that choice leads to all sorts of issues from privacy-conscious individuals.

I understand not open sourcing their secret sauce (e.g. search algorithms), but they have a ton of other products that could absolutely be open source without any negative financial impact. It's things like this that make me seriously doubt their commitment to open source.

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Re:Unleashing Open-Source Silicon by joshuamorton on Monday November 25, 2019 @09:50PM (#21635252)
The common-across-many-applications parts of android are open source, and "Google docs" isn't common-across-many-applications. Arguably, the google drive storage backend could be open source, but that wouldn't need to be open source, it would make more sense as an api.
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