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Re:Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship by Lewisham on Thursday June 11, 2015 @01:41PM (#9701136)
Coverity was evaluated a number of times at Google, and IIRC we decided it wasn't going to scale to the codebase size we needed it to. A separate and unrelated effort ended up with us building Tricorder [1].

Often perceived NIH at large companies for this sort of thing is simply a byproduct of scale that is unreasonable for external companies to have to worry about supporting.

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43322.html

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Re:Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship by ixtli on Friday June 12, 2015 @01:54AM (#9704283)
Your second point is very good; I get the feeling that NIH is simply a buzzword at the moment. Especially since a cursory glance Infer's source code will show that it was, in fact, invented somewhere else and purchased by Facebook.
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