Which of the following statements is false?
A) To develop its initial search implementation, Google needed to develop the clustering hardware and software, including distributed storage.
B) Google published its designs in the research paper "The Google File System," but did not open source its software.
C) Programmers at Yahoo!, working from Google's designs in the "Google File System" paper, then built their own system.
D) Yahoo! open-sourced their work and the Eclipse Foundation implemented the system as Hadoop.

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While programmers at Yahoo! did work from Google's designs in the "Google File System" paper to build their own system, they did not open-source their work. Hadoop was actually developed independently by Doug Cutting and Michael J. Cafarella, who were inspired by Google's work but did not use any of Yahoo!'s code. They later released Hadoop as an open-source project.

Which of the Following Statements Is False