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Comment by VeejayRampay | Hacker News Reader

This is not an official Google product. So why did it say Google in the title? This should be clarified.

> It’s worth noting that while this project comes out of Google, the open-source version is not an official Google product. So don’t expect the company to provide any official support.

The distinction is that this project is Google written/used not google supported.

It's made by google, used by google, blogged about by google, and hosted on google's github. it's officially google, it's not officially a product.

It is a load balancer Google is using in production: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/29/google-open-sources-its-see...

Edit: Here's the official Google announcement: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2016/01/seesaw-scalabl...

It's not used in production, it's used in "corp" which is totally disjoint from production at Google.

How is that not "using it in production"? Internal usage is still production usage.

When Google, Facebook, etc. refer to "production" they typically mean google.com, facebook.com, etc.

EDIT: If you're going to down-vote this comment, at least provide detaro with the correct answer to his/her question!

I didn't downvote, but your statement in no way refutes parent argument. Typically =/= always. It's similar to someone declaring "HN was down", and you reply by saying "HN is typically up"

It was more like someone saying, "Foo is not bar," someone else saying, "How is foo not bar? Bar is bar," and then me saying, "Because bar has a different meaning, colloquially, at certain companies."

At least 2 years ago it was already not always the case and things were moving towards unification rather than the other way around. Unless the general direction has drastically changed since I left I can only assume your statement is even less accurate now than it used to be.

You're right but this particular piece of software is an artifact of the old way, not the new unified way.

I believe it means they want to share the code but not support it like an official product launch, but I don't know for sure.

And then withdraw the code and cancel it once it's in wide use, a la MyTracks?

MyTracks was never in wide use, and its source code certainly wasn't.

It's distributed under Apache License 2.0. So it doesn't really matter, you'll still have the source.

It's open source, it they loose interest in it anybody can pick up the code and continue supporting it.

It's on the google github organization...

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