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Quite a few of the FAANG layoffs are from employee retention programs, and a few of these projects were high-profile and open source. The one I'm most interested in is google's fuchsia project, I hope it doesn't lose traction and get killed off.

Firefox's servo research project team was laid off in 2020, and the servo project was branched completely into its own thing. The servo project is still up and kicking with plans for 2023 though.

The layoffs will certainly have an impact, but hopefully nothing substantial

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Fuchsia is already powering Nest devices so I am highly doubtful Google is going to kill it off. Don't let the loud contingent of people who are are still sad about Google killing off Google Reader 10 years ago drown out the sane voices. Google will never kill off Google Search or Google Keep.

They can kill off Nest too. Doubt it makes a difference.

Probably true but I think they are aware that they need to move away from Linux in the long term because it is holding them back in various areas where Apple is beating them - especially security and software updates.

why not Keep? hardly seems core

Thanks for reminding me that Reader was killed off! That just reopened the wound in my soul :(

To be clear, I am one of those people who are still sad about that. It was a social network for thoughtful writers in stark contrast to Instagram. (Note that I am not saying that a ton of thought and intention goes into top level instagram posts, it's just a different medium is all.)

Are you new around here?

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Search, Gmail, Maps, Chrome and Android are probably safe. Everything else can be killed at any point in tine.

You're one of the one's that are still sad that Google Killed off Reader that I referred to.

Like I said, Google's never killing of Keep.

What is Google Keep? First time I’m hearing about it.

Notes app. Pretty similar to Evernote but simpler in some ways. Nothing ground-breaking.

What about BumpTop, Picnik, Picasa, Orkut, Timeful, Stadia, Hangouts, Surveys, Chrome apps, Youtube Go, G-Suite free edition..

A lot of these changes came with Pichai, his ethos for google seems to be to turn it into another Microsoft; Microsoft is fine, but we already have one of those. It was better when we also had a google that was true to its founding ideology... everything went downhill since that g became uppercase.

Google search and Google keep are strange things to merge as never kill off.

I think we can all agree on search.

Maps, Android, Chrome & YouTube would be very unlikely. Adsense too but maybe if they needed to avoid anti-trust .

Docs, drive and Gmail, probably not but I wouldn't say never.

The rest, Id say could go on the right whim of cost cutting.

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