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 <jjzeidner@gmail.com> 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 <badger.shawn@gmail.com> 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""
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