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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by loopbit on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:31PM (#9696077)
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.

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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by Alupis on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @06:43PM (#9696146)
> 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.

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Re:Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (... by seanflyon on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:39PM (#9696399)
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).
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