A look inside Google's open-source kitchen
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| DiBona: We use the Linux kernel. We've got the GNU tools, we use a lot of
| the compiler collection from the Free Software Foundation. We use some
| Apache libraries--we don't use the Apache Web servers so often, but we do
| use a lot of their libraries. We use a lot of OpenSSL and OpenSSH. We use
| languages like Python and C. We use a fair amount of MySQL, all kinds of
| things.
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| Yet proprietary code is very important to Google as well. Is it
| important to keep your business secrets secret?
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| DiBona: Yes, for sure! We couldn't very well release any of the
| ranking functions. Not because of security through obscurity or anything
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| bogus like that, but because those techniques themselves are a part of
| the war. It's more like releasing the key to cryptography rather
| than releasing cryptography itself.
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