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How do you estimate a share? What's the share of libc in Google business? What's the share of openssl? What's the share of ncurses?


libc used in Android. openssl -> view boringSSL - BoringSSL is a fork of OpenSSL that is designed to meet Google's needs

Nobody says that one company has to support every project and google supports many open source projects.


But how would you estimate the contribution that libc has to Android? Is libc entitled to 10% of Android's revenue? 20%? 100%, since it is a vital component? This is what the GP was asking.


Only google can answer that. But i think we can not say one lib make x%, it are all the libs and tools that are necessary. We don't now what e.g. google search uses under the hood, but all are needed so google can make only $1.




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