• Steeve@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Aren’t a lot of open source libraries and languages initially open sourced from faang? I’m using Airflow at work, which is a descendant of something Facebook open sourced. Pretty sure all of them open sourced a bunch of of their data center designs too

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      1 year ago

      Initially open-sourced? No.

      FAANG jumped on the open source bandwagon once they realised they could not complete with the Linux dev ecosystem, and so hastily implemented drivers and other open source tech built on existing FOSS libraries and concepts.

      They’ve contributed a lot, but they built upon existing frameworks pioneered by linux/FSF