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I understand that facebook has other important things to do ,than create their own file sharing service( for internal purpose ), but I can't stop asking this question, why not create their own thing ?



Well you pretty much answered your own question, didn't you?

Surely it is cheaper to buy an off-the-shelf solution, instead of spending a lot of money on wasting engineering time building and supporting a product that is not core to their mission.


It's DRY, applied over the entire industry.




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