I am bit tired by these VP-speak articles. So what really was the discussion with Eric Brewer? What arguments made him suddenly agreed to open source? Why was Urs rejected this before? Why are you not allowed to write about this?

This whole article is like “I talked to my VP and convinced him to open source internal tool. We at Google are the best and everything we have build is the best and here’s the link for free trial.”

And how the heck did you got “number of years” worth of coding number?