I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love that company. :D > 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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