[News] Yahoo, Google, and Their Open Source Citizenship

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why Google and Yahoo! can't be better open source citizens

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| "These companies have failed to write code according to a cardinal
| open source principle: modularity. Yahoo! and Google can't open source
| more code because their code is too tightly bound together - layer upon
| layer upon layer requiring layer upon layer upon layer."
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/07/why_google_and.html

Google will unveil a service for the Open Source community this Thursday.
There are only speculations as regards the nature of the product...

I believe that a few years back Yahoo moved from the homebred YScript to PHP.