On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > "Paul Makepeace" <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Amias Channer <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Linking to your own posts which only link to another of your own >> > posts is not considered evidence in book. > > The link was meant to show it in context, not as evidence. It's an > opinion and unlikely to have evidence. Sorry for any confusion. > >> > As far as i have heard the GSOC thing came out of google needing some >> > particularly difficult advances in several open source projects >> > and finding a way to help this happen without having to try to >> > own the people who could do it. [...] > > That's a plausible reason for Google to do it. As long as that's > understood by everyone, we all win from it. > >> Google supports open source because supporting open source is good, >> and open source has supported Google. It encourages young developers >> to work on open source projects which helps everyone. More here: >> http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_goals > > Sorry, that's BS. Like all Delaware Inc's, they're legally forbidden > from doing anything except maximise Google's share value. They may
It's possible to work in the greater good AND optimize for share value. > claim they're doing it "because supporting open source is good," but > that's only because that claim maximises Google's share value. If > more people called it out as the BS it is, they'd stop claiming it. > > Claims like that are why GSOC isn't a win for everyone. Who do you perceive as losing out from sponsoring students from writing code?? > > [...] >> But congrats to MJ for the most cynical post on here so far ;-) >> Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/192/ > > No, when they came emailing years ago, I sent them a short rebuke. > I'd prefer to leave computing than leave the cooperative sector. > >> > So come on MJ what is it , what did they do to you ? > > In short, externalising their costs onto the wider web and helping > governments to repress information. Honestly... LOL P > > Hope that explains, > -- > MJ Ray (slef) > Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small > worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ > (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 > _______________________________________________ > BristolBathPM mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm > _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
