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OP doesn't depend on Google. It is a mutually beneficial arrangement, not one of dependency. Perhaps if Google was the only employer that would hire OP, but odds are they could quickly get a different tech job at a thousand different companies.

Your argument could be used to say that OP should pay out of pocket for server hardware to run their programs that Google uses, which doesn't make sense.




No matter where OP works, they would depend on open-source software. I think the question of dependency is without a doubt here.

My argument cannot be used for server hardware, because, after all, Google has to pay for that.


But they(probably) would depend on different open source software




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