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On 07/23/10 01:50, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> Sure hope you don't have an "Android Life" though ... Google is such an
> incredibly evil empire ... beginning to make Gate's Mickey$oft seem sweet
> in comparison.
>
Somebody tell me if this is OT. But it seems very related to me:
I don't understand the Google bashing. Google has probably done more for
open source than any company on the planet, depending on the measuring
stick you use, of course. Google has supported Google Summer of Code for
years. Google pays 85% of the expenses of the Mozilla foundation, and is
therefore pretty much responsible for giving us the only truly
marketable open-source browser (outside of Google Chrome). Google's
flagship mobile OS -- Android -- is released almost entirely under the
Apache license. Google gave us Google Apps which, outside of OpenOffice,
has been pretty much the only successful crack in the Microsoft Office
market.
Outside of their search technology, virtually every software project
they've every championed (that I know of) has either been an open source
project or has advanced open standards in some way.
I hear some people bash Google over privacy concerns. I'm not
unilaterally standing behind them, and maybe you can educate us better
on that. But there is no law saying that you have to send search queries
over an unencrypted connection to Google, in order to get a free
response back. And Gmail is a free e-mail service provided to almost 200
million people. Can we really expect Google to exhaust their company
savings defending client privacy when some agency comes along demanding
particular information?
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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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