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Re:An Update on Our Outage by kerng on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:01AM (#29066156)
By that logic Facebook certainly wouldn't be a tech company either.
Re:An Update on Our Outage by 867-5309 on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:19PM (#29068844)
I wonder how long it will take until people adopt their new name, and MAANG
Re:An Update on Our Outage by kerng on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:26PM (#29069896)
The new offical acronym on the street is MAMAA by the way. Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet.

Jim Cramer announced this on Friday.

Re:An Update on Our Outage by citrusybread on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:41PM (#29069211)
might as well go for MAMAG at that point, swapping Netflix out and Microsoft in. Or MAMANG. Or even AMMANG. Possibilities are endless. :)
Re:An Update on Our Outage by newacronym on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @12:04AM (#29076904)
MAGMA. You heard it here first
Re:An Update on Our Outage by geffchang on Monday November 01, 2021 @09:28AM (#29066404)
Why not? Didn't Facebook create tools like GraphQL and React?
Re:An Update on Our Outage by bcrosby95 on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:14AM (#29066816)
Netflix has created tools and open source libraries too.

RxJava was opensourced by Netflix, the defacto standard for reactive programming in Java. They also open sourced a lot of their work for working with avif files, which has managed to find its way into Chrome, among other projects.

Among other things.

Re:An Update on Our Outage by flatiron on Monday November 01, 2021 @12:08PM (#29068669)
they do occasionally use BSD licensed software so they can choose what/when/if to open source.
Re:An Update on Our Outage by ksec on Monday November 01, 2021 @10:24AM (#29066933)
Facebook dont consider themselves as tech companies. But there aren't any other category that are clearly defined in which they fit in. Social Media isn't one.