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Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by Beaver117 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:11AM (#35117595)
...Yes, they literally rewrote an OS kernel for no reason
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Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by icrbow on Sunday March 12, 2023 @03:36AM (#35117729)
No reason other than making a kernel with a sane security model?

Like we have a bunch of those under each tree in a park...

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Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by __turbobrew__ on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:31AM (#35118007)
Fuchsia has nearly been 10 years in the making but has yet to make any meaningful impact. They probably could have spent a quarter or two with Yocto to create a stripped down linux for Nest devices and called it a day.

Instead they had 400(!) full time staff pulling in $300k+ developing something which nobody wanted and has not had any meaningful impact.

Maybe in 10 more years they will manage to replace Android…

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Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by cowl on Sunday March 12, 2023 @04:34AM (#35118029)
And they literally rewrote a Browser for no reason, And they literally rewrote a bunch of infrastructure for no reason. And they literally reqrote an operating System (Android) for no reason. Oh wait...
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Re:Keith Rabois (PayPal Boss): Google over-hired talent to d... by ladyanita22 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:36PM (#35225542)
Chrome never was a rewrite
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