The new Microsoft
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| Sander_Marechal May 11, 2007 2:06 PM EDT |
From the article:Quoting:A shareholder asked Schmidt and Google co-founder Larry Page how they would avoid becoming known as 'the new Microsoft, and not in flattering terms'. Bollocks. Google's code is not free. They take free code and keep everything private. If it's free, release the source! I'd like a copy of the Google Analytics code please. |
| pat May 11, 2007 2:09 PM EDT |
Huh? |
| dcparris May 11, 2007 2:45 PM EDT |
If they aren't distributing code, I'm cool with them keeping it private. That's actually one of the benefits of the GPL. I can take the code, modify it internally, and use it any way I want. Now, if I could just figure out how to drum up my own whizbang code like those guys... |
| tuxchick May 11, 2007 3:02 PM EDT |
Don, it's easy. Hire genuises, pay them gobs, give them toys and real offices, and voila! Done. I do wish Google would share more of their cool stuff, and not continually relegate Linux clients to the back of the bus. |
| tracyanne May 11, 2007 3:04 PM EDT |
Quoting:I do wish Google would share more of their cool stuff, and not continually relegate Linux clients to the back of the bus. The fact that they seem to treat Linux like an unwanted stepchild is how I know the "it's in our DNA" is a load of cobblers. |
| Sander_Marechal May 11, 2007 3:10 PM EDT |
Quoting:If they aren't distributing code, I'm cool with them keeping it private. Oh me too, don't get me wrong. But if they do that, they shouldn't be saying how they're not the new Micrisoft because their code is free. |
| dcparris May 11, 2007 3:22 PM EDT |
I do agree Google needs to quit treating the GNU/Linux community like red-headed step children. I vehemently dislike that. The Windows users get all the "cool" toys while we get to wait until the fad is over - I feel like I'm back in the Marines in that regard. When I was in, we were just getting the muskets the Army ditched after the War for Independence. About the time I got out, we traded our mules in for some whizbang thingy called a jeep. That's about how Google does the GNU/Linux community. |
| jdixon May 11, 2007 3:36 PM EDT |
> we were just getting the muskets the Army ditched after the War for Independence. Being in NC, you'll have to be more specific than that, Don. Which one would that be, the first one or the second? :) |
| dcparris May 11, 2007 4:00 PM EDT |
JD, you're correct. I was referring to the first one. As if the government would give Marines enough money to modernize! ;-) |
| tuxchick May 11, 2007 4:08 PM EDT |
Mules are more reliable than Jeeps and don't tip over. You just didn't know when you had it good! |
| dcparris May 11, 2007 4:21 PM EDT |
TC, I'll give you the mule, but apparently, you've never flown over the Panamanian coast on a buzzard. |
| azerthoth May 11, 2007 4:34 PM EDT |
***NEWS FLASH*** Military Intelligence has discovered that using guns is just a "new fangled" way to throw rocks (bullets). There is no plan for what the cash will instead be used for. When asked for his thoughts on the matter on Marine General was quoted as saying "We'll do what we always have, use our heads" |
| dinotrac May 13, 2007 5:20 AM EDT |
One thing bothers me about this thread -- although it is simply a reflection of a rather cancerous phenomenon in the FOSS world at large. Specifically, we seem to be stuck in a 3 year old's tantrum mentality. All or nothing, my way or the highway, baby. Google is not Microsoft. Period. Not only that, Google HAS released and HAS supported a fair amount of free software. Ever hear of the Summer of Code? How about this: http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/08/announcing-t... Good OCR has been conspicuously absent from free software. This could be a big step in resolving that problem, thanks to HP and Google. It seems very strange to welcome IBM as a free software Good Citizen but cast aspersions on Google. We should not require that companies go out of business in order to think well of them. It's not always easy to balance the needs of the company and the commnunity. Plenty of companies don't bother, taking what they can use and letting it go at that. So..I am grateful for Google. I am grateful that Adobe has brought Acrobat Reader for Linux and Solaris into parity (or, at least, near-parity) with Windows and Mac. I am pleased that they have freed a few small things and hope they will be encouraged to free more. I want nVidia to release a full-featured free driver for their cards. I am convinced it is to their benefit to do so. In the meantime, I am grateful that they release and maintain decent drivers for Linux that let me do things with free software that I couldn't otherwise do. In short, half a glass will whet my whistle for now. Please make plans to pour more. |
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