I am aware of that, I was just using the articles title and info from it to post it. I am just glad someone else is going to start taking some more of M$'s money and they are Linux friendly. On 5/11/07, Joshua Zeidner wrote: > Shawn, > > Google may be after the 'market share' of Microsoft, but the two companies > count their assets quite differently. > > Microsoft's asset was their hold on the OS market and the control that > this granted them in a variety of venues. Google, on the other hand counts > it's primary asset as its /usage information/ of its applications, and the > actual document data itself( which you sign away the rights to in your user > agreement ). Being that all its software is net-based and hosted remotely, > Google is aware of *every single click you make*. This gives them strategic > information of development investment/return on a scale that makes Microsoft > look like a bunch of useless wimps. For instance, if 5 million people start > using the email feature for Google Reader, Google knows with great accuracy > that expanding this feature set is a good investment. These kinds of > decisions were made intuitively in older development paradigms. It seems > that there are really only a handful of apps that do not want to live on the > web, Photoshop seems like one of the lasting strongholds of desktop-based > software*. > > Google's recent acquisition of Double Click makes their surveillance even > more pervasive and complete as Double Click features ads in a great number > of web sites. As a result of this recent acquisition, some are even calling > for Anti-Trust action [1]. > > This also introduces some new business dimensions that did not exist > before. In the world run by Google, privacy is the most valued premium. > Many do not understand how important maintaining privacy is in this new > world. [2] Whatever your plans may be for world domination, exposing them > to Google puts every investment firm with bottomless pockets one step ahead > of whatever technical genius you may (think you) possess. Also of great > concern is the position that companies such as Google gain over censorship > mechanisms. I know of many web sites and blogs that have been removed from > Google on baseless grounds of 'spam' or 'hate speech' etc. It is a great > illusion that Google is wholly impartial to the content that it indexes. > > The biggest issues by far for the near future will be our laws for privacy > and discrimination, which will be greatly emphasized by these new > progressions. Its takes a combination of vision and technical knowledge to > fully understand the extent to which equality is compromised by these new > technologies. Also there have been some claims that Google is working with > government agencies such as the NSA- can anyone here qualify these claims? > [3] > > > -jmz > > > > * as I have stated before, Adobe is a key company in the new IT landscape, > because apps like Flash are acting as a pivot between the new world of > online 'rich media apps' and the traditional desktop OS. > > [1] > http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article1687147.ece > > [2] interesting tech: > http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/index.php?page=home&lang=en > > [3] http://www.google-watch.org/jobad.html > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/12/12/DI2005121201136.html > http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/10/8041/ > ( I do not vouch for these sources ) > > > > > On 5/11/07, Shawn Badger wrote: > > > > > http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=22241&hed=Google+Comes+Clean+on+Microsoft+ > > > > > > A few excerts form the article: > > > > "Google today officially confirmed what many analysts have been saying > > for months: the Mountain View, California-based search leader is going > > after the software market in direct competition with Microsoft" > > > > "In a question and answer session with shareholders, one woman asked > > Mr. Schmidt and Google co-founder Larry Page how they would avoid > > becoming known as "the new Microsoft, and not in flattering terms." > > > > > > > > Mr. Page added, "It's natural to be concerned about it… We're not the > > same kind of company" as others out there, Mr. Page said. "Our > > engineers all run Linux. It's free. You can hack on it. It's deep in > > our DNA"" > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > .0000. communication. > .0001. development. > .0010. strategy. > .0100. appeal. > > JOSHUA M. 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