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by fergie 2767 days ago
I think Google actually does open source a significant part of their reusable libraries. I'm thinking about stuff like Leveldb, Tensorflow and Angular off the top of my head, but I'm sure there is a lot more.

Some companies do seem to be ideologically opposed to open source (I'm looking at you Balmer-era Microsoft) but Google has always seemed to have had a certain commitment to it.
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maxxxxx 2767 days ago
I think a Javascript frontend framework like Angular has to be open source by definition. Or is there a way to close source it?
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tracker1 2766 days ago
Once the output is built and uglified, you will not reverse engineer it back to the source that google started with. JS projects are not not much different from any other built project. Probably closest to .Net or Java IL once uglified. Still higher than WebASM, but still not he same as source.
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FakeComments 2767 days ago
It has to be open source in the sense of sharing the source code, but companies take the extra step of making it open source in the sense you have a license to use it for your own website.
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