Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB
by im3w1l on Friday April 25, 2014 @04:59PM
(#7648997)
Lets say you managed to sneak out the code from facebook. You take the logo, draw a red cross over it and scribble "ProAmbook" below. You push it live.
Now what? How do you get users? "We are just like facebook - only your friends aren't here" probably wouldn't get users excited.
And if you somehow DID manage to get users, don't you think there are "watermarks" in the code, that they could detect and sue you to death with?
Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB
by slig on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:43PM
(#7649521)
They have anti-spam heuristics, graph heuristics, models on how to serve the best ad for each user, tons on bugs that can be only discovered by reading the source, etc.
Now what? How do you get users? "We are just like facebook - only your friends aren't here" probably wouldn't get users excited.
And if you somehow DID manage to get users, don't you think there are "watermarks" in the code, that they could detect and sue you to death with?