Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (...
by loopbit on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:31PM
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Except that google 'banned' the use of windows internally a few years ago unless you had a really, really good reason for it.
Not sure what's the status of that ban (nor I care), but will skew the numbers enough to invalidate your point.
Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (...
by Alupis on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:43PM
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> enough to invalidate your point.
It might except ex-googlers in this thread of stated Google "banned" use of Homebrew internally. So the net benefit to the company and/or employees remains small to zero.
This is off topic though, since he was not being interviewed for homebrew development.
Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (...
by seanflyon on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:39PM
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As far as I'm aware, Mac is just as 'banned' as Windows. Developers have Linux(Goobuntu) desktops and Mac, Linux, Windows or ChromeOS for laptops (which are primarily used as a terminal for your desktop).
Macs account for something like 8% of the total marketplace of all PC's. For developers, they account for something like 20%... another 20% on Linux, and remainder on Windows or other.
So even if somehow having a paid Google employee work on Homebrew seemed advantageous, it would only benefit 20% of Google's staff, and 0% of the company itself (all Google servers are Linux).