yeah I guess, sick transom gloria monday and such… On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 11:37 AM, <hughaguila...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Google is not going to be happy if somebody uses Go to compete against > > Google. > > I think that Go is a nice language, but it's not so nice that it would > make any difference whether a Google competitor used Go or used some > other language. Google does not compete at the level of programming > language choice. > > > > Most likely, Google made Go public because they wanted enthusiastic > > contributors to help them develop Go --- hiring programmers is expensive. > > After Go is settled though, Google may make it proprietary again. The > > enthusiasts will succeed so well that no further contribution from them > is > > needed. > > The Go team released Go as open source because proprietary programming > languages make no sense. Since all programming languages have > equivalent power, proprietary languages bring you no advantage. It > would never make sense for Google to make some new version of Go > proprietary. > > I appreciate your skepticism of corporations, and that can be a > reasonable stance, but you should also expect large successful > corporations to act more or less rationally. Google might conceivably > some day decide that it's not worth paying people to support Go, but > Google would never decide to make a proprietary version of Go. > > Ian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
