Bhaskar Ghose wrote: >Hello, > > >>But the fact is the core is GNU/Linux ?? and by that could it be >>implied >>that they actually have to release the OS etc as under the GPL >>license. >> >> >The GPL says that if you make any modifications to the software and you >keep it to yourself and don't sell, redistribute it, you can keep the >modifications secret. So as long as Google is not selling their >OS/software, it's perfectly ok to continue without infringing the GPL. > > > Google has released some of libraries as Open source ...check it out http://code.google.com/projects.html
>>If hardware costs are so cheap what prevents other service providers >>from having similar email spaces. >> >> >Well, because Google has some pretty neat ideas which others don't >have! Honestly, Yahoo!, etc. have way to many users than GMail. >Basically Google's idea of having an invitation system did all the >magic for them. It ensured that the user base increases in an >exponential rate and they also get to control the number of users by >controlling the number of invites. That way, they could stess test the >Hardware and gradually improve the system. Otherwise, if they'd opened >all the gates for the users at the start, the system no matter how big >would have conked. Yahoo! guys don't have that privilege. They are the >biggest website in the world and it'd be hard for them to upgrade all >accounts to 2GB suddenly. But they are doing it gradually, it's already >1GB on Yahoo! and that's pretty good I'd say. >Regards, >Bhaskar > >It is NEVER Linux OS. It's ``GNU/Linux'' OS. For more info follow this link >--> http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >_______________________________________________ >ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org >http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd >Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi >http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
