Daniel James wrote: > This is what got me started using Clusty in the first place, after > Google caved into the Internet Police in China. I don't think we built > a free and open Internet to let it be abused in that way.
I know some other issues that speak against Google. I guess they will come along with some laws that have a lot of advantages, but also protect, in a 'freaky' way, their own political interests. I'm 'happy', not proud, to be a German and I also would be happy to be an US-American, but also without proud. The same, if I would have the nationality of many other countries that are democratic. 'Our' nations have some embargo against several other nations. (I guess) you Daniel are from the UK, so we both are Europeans. I don't like many embargo the EU and the USA pursue and I guess most commercial projects e.g. Google follow extreme opportunistic the words of the laws of the countries they are from. For Google I also don't like that they make a conquest of highly gifted people, by manipulative concessions. Full ACK to your argument. Can we trust Clusty and other alternative search engines? Just to publish funny cartoons isn't an evidence for the truth. I can imagine, that if we have trouble with Linux and ask the community on other mailing lists and forums, we will be dissed, if we won't ask Google before asking the community. The long and short of it - Now I be for it to remove Google from your distro, you are right with your argumentation. For me Google is similar to VST, it has no place in FLOSS by default, but I have the liberty to use it for/ with the FLOSS I'm using. - Anyway, I will use Google, because it's the fastest way to get information about e.g. Linux. Political and because of data protection I won't trust any search engine. - In Addition to Google I will try to use more often alternative search engines in the future. Google for me seems to be like democracy, it's far away of being perfect or just good in any way, but the best solution of all lowest common denominators. The anarchistic way I prefer would cause a disaster, because it's not common. I guess removing Google from Firefox's default search won't have any positive or negative effects, but it still would be a statement. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
