[im3w1l]

My guess would be that disentangling a project from all proprietary dependencies is very expensive.

[Traster]

It's actually a pretty interesting element of Google, their adherence to a centralized infrastructure must make spin offs and acquisitions incredibly difficult.

[arthurcolle]

Couldn't the spun out company just license the centralized compute infrastructure and subsequently migrate as needed?

Seems easy enough, unless I'm missing something here