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On 07/23/10 03:48, Christopher Kunzler wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> - --
>> Christopher Howard
>> frigidcode.com
>> theologia.indicium.us
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>
> I love Google--Google is one of the few big corporations I don't
> believe to be evil. However I can understand why some have concerns.
> Google has access to a crazy amount of information.
>
>
Well, sure they do... every company and publisher on the planet wants
them to. They are a web search company, crawling the web like Yahoo and
Alexa and anyone else can freely.
Now, there is the question of people storing their entire life's worth
of personal e-mail communication on a server they haven't paid for or
have no control over. But if we all really cared about that, we could
just PGP encrypt our e-mails and do the decryption locally. (That way,
you can store the e-mails on any server you wanted and only you would be
able to read them.)
- --
Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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