MS stores windows codebase in a single repo (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-o...). 300GB.

I don't really see a benefit of having all code of an org in a single repo. Single product, sure. But whole company? Why. Not to mention, these are serious outliers.

From security standpoint, it doesn't seem great, from practical side, it's not great (bandwidth cost ect).

There was similar push by Facebook to improve Mercurial perf and they showed some impressive advantage over Git. It seems it was abandoned eventually for Git.

Rather surprising that they don't offer sign up with Facebook/Google.

I know, i know, but that's pretty big speed bump in the onboarding process.

Probably, but I will take this victory. Google has power to make this happen.

> Google has power to make this happen.

they will have more power once current anti-trust trial will be over.

Because they are collecting a shitload of data about me to make them work.

It's like a little camera accompanying you everywhere and you don't get to say no and it's used for anything they can get away with.

Maybe when uutils ship their gnu compatible version(deviations from GNU are considered bugs), macos will update.

MIT, Rust, active development... Maybe in few years.

I suspect such versions won't comply with Cyber Resilience Act (=company would be on hook for a fine). Browsers are in category 2 iirc.

Edit: rest of world might be fine(big maybe, these things have tendency to proliferate),eu citizens... screws are tightening.

You can try to patent anything, but patent might not be accepted.

The thing is that patent office is funded by patent fees, so there is an incentive to accept the patent plus they are often hard to read.

What I understand of US law is that there's very little in the way of filing a patent. It's not really tested until someone challenges it.

Huawei and HarmonyOS? I know, rather unpopular ouside of China.

That's simply rebranded Android.

Not even sure they're allowed to be imported into the US.

Sure, but position of Intel back then was very different than today.

Being dethroned and free cash flow negative is rather bad I am told.

> For example you can get Chrome-style updates where Windows will keep the app fresh in the background even if it's not running

Considering the ability to update itself is a requirement of Cyber Resilience Act in EU, I foresee a big uptick in usage (and app stores usage of course).