[aklug] Re: Google Evil? Was: Re: I'm an Android

I tend to agree with you. I'm not all that "for" any large corporation,
but as far as corporations go ...

I do see some potential privacy issues. Some say they see some potential
content ownership issues. I don't know for certain whether they are
right or wrong. I believe I see worse privacy issues with pretty much
every ISP out there than I do w/ Google. Ownership? I don't know that I
agree with the interpretations I've seen posted. I do try a keep it in
mind when I'm deciding what to, or not to, put on the cloud.

Jim G

On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 03:20 +0000, Christopher Howard wrote:
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> On 07/23/10 01:50, Bruce Hill wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> - --
> Christopher Howard
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> theologia.indicium.us
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