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This is what I'm here for. Indeed the Atlanta team bet it all on Brightly, and while it was so ahead of its time, it didn't get enough of an uptake to satisfy... certain executives in engineering.

They subsequently shuttered Atlanta and it would take five or more years before they'd allow engineers there again.

It was very Google. Lost some truly talented (Hi Bruce!) software engineers who would go on to make terrific software elsewhere.

The closest we got to a fully open source android release was probably in the Nexus one days with some 9 proprietary blobs and , worse, user space support programs (IIRC the compass calibration routines, annoyingly.) , all for various chip/radio support.

The smart pigs honestly look like a pigs snout flying down the pipe.

If you wanna see cutouts of a bunch of this equipment, a pig in a transparent pipe, and just happen to be in Oman, the petroleum development museum there is super.

Id imagine there's something similar in Houston, this stuff is legit fascinating.

Back around ...2007 or so I had papabupple make a 'google (heart emoji) open source" hard candy, they were absolutely terrific. People loved those things. Papabubble had a shop in SF in those days. Expensing 600 lbs of candy was a first for google accounting I think.

Assange worked with Rusbridger, Guardian's editor in chief at the time, I think. So .... the guardian should go to the guardian and get their help! :-)

But the iPhone came out in 2007 and the for g1, 2008..... so, uh.....

It was a very big printer, Jeremy.

Aside from the risk of age, he had documented memory issues after his airplane crash in 1981, i don't know if that makes him more or less vulnerable during a stroke, but I'd be worried for sure.

Yup, we wanted Renee to make the mascot for Go.I personally really loved Glenda (the plan 9 bunny) and was enthusiastic. It turned out pretty cute! We even ended up ordering a few containers full from squishables in that first year of go being released outside google.

It might have been OSU , not sure, it's been a long time.

Psu open sourced guidance software in the mid 2000s and it found its way into other drone corebases and into a variety of missiles, including the quassam 4.

Since it was open source and developed in public ,the itar folks determined it was okay to release.

Yea, but,not gonna share. What I told Sergey was to tell Steve 'you can't take a person away from a job they love'

So once you reduce the remaining pieces of the ship to api calls or interfaces or simply constant definitions, you'll find that copyright still attaches, but that's okay.

The whole point of the final rulings in the oracle/google trial is that is indeed copywritten by the author, but fair use. So source code stanzas that are ...well...totally banal or generic aren't actually suddenly not covered by copyright, but the argument you'd make (after fourteen years in court in googles case) is that it is fair use, wether that copyright is under open source or proprietary licenses.

There isn't a magical ability to declare something a derivative work when it isn't, just because it's open source/copyleft.

That said, when engineers or pms came to me asking to remove copyright attribution, I almost always said no.

It does ignore a ton of contributions from a ton of people, but that is the job of the CEO and cofounder. If anything I always want to know more about Chris Malachowsky, Nvidia's cofounder. Their relationship I thought was pretty special, esp in the beginning. Nothing like the woz/jobs relationship, imo.