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by sporkmonger 5126 days ago
FWIW, Chris Dibona's record response time to a request I've made to open source a project was somewhere on the order of seconds. Maybe 10 seconds I think. It was like he had his finger hovering over the "Approve" button. Patent approval takes longer and does seem to push things into the 3-7 day range, but I once didn't get a response from them, and Chris basically just said, "Well, that's their problem. They were supposed to respond and they didn't, so you can go ahead and release." The open source team at Google is amazing and frankly, more companies should copy them. This stuff matters.