Comment by Alupis
11 years ago
> If you are hiring the Homebrew dev, and your devs currently use Homebrew, why wouldn't you hire him to work on Homebrew for you?
Macs account for something like 8% of the total marketplace of all PC's. For developers, they account for something like 20%... another 20% on Linux, and remainder on Windows or other.
So even if somehow having a paid Google employee work on Homebrew seemed advantageous, it would only benefit 20% of Google's staff, and 0% of the company itself (all Google servers are Linux).
Except that google 'banned' the use of windows internally a few years ago unless you had a really, really good reason for it.
Not sure what's the status of that ban (nor I care), but will skew the numbers enough to invalidate your point.
> enough to invalidate your point.
It might except ex-googlers in this thread of stated Google "banned" use of Homebrew internally. So the net benefit to the company and/or employees remains small to zero.
This is off topic though, since he was not being interviewed for homebrew development.
As far as I'm aware, Mac is just as 'banned' as Windows. Developers have Linux(Goobuntu) desktops and Mac, Linux, Windows or ChromeOS for laptops (which are primarily used as a terminal for your desktop).
actually internal sources tell me that Mac OS X is the dominant OS at Facebook, Google and Twitter, with a lot lot lot lot more than 20%