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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by cromwellian on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:20PM (#29101165)
I'm pretty sure when we did this, we didn't just drop it without talking with anyone, after all, it uses proprietary assets and we presented it at I/O. It's been a long time, but IIRC, Chris DiBona was involved at least as far as getting an opinion (I don't recall if OSPO existed back then), as well as some lawyercats because of the proprietary assets it dynamically loads. This was semi-official, it was shown at all-hands by Eric, the media team helped us create the trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhMN0wlITLk), it was hosted by Chrome DevRel who deal with OSS releases all the time, so this wasn't just some random engineers off doing a secret private project and uploading it unannounced.

My first few years at Google, I worked almost exclusively on official OSS projects (no google3 commits).

Edit: looking at the trailer, I forgot we released this on April 1, as an April Fools joke. LOL

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by knorker on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:49AM (#29105144)
Ah. Yeah ok that paints a different picture than your other comments.

I'd hate to see people get in trouble after reading what you wrote and reason their way to thinking because it's opensource and their own time they can do what they want.

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Re:Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB... by cromwellian on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:12PM (#29111309)
No biggie, my initial wording was problematic. I really only wanted to express at the time I was racing to get a private demo ready for TGIF that we could link people to, and I ended up having to use AWS which was frustrating.

For the most part, I think most Googlers are thoughtful about the rules, god knows we go through enough training decks, but also as a xoogler? you know Googley behavior means people are pretty reasonable about obeying license restrictions and adhering to desires of OSS authors.

Although as the number of employees at Google skyrocket, the probability of bad actors increases and company culture was probably much different than when there were only 5-10k employees vs >100k

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