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.
