http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070628/tc_pcworld/133543
> Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years >after the product's launch for the Windows operating system. [snip] yawn! 01. first it's late. ironic. google treats the gnulinux end-user community rather shoddily with development and availability of end-user software. Yet google is the first to use all thing gnulinux to fuel its multi-billion dollar empire. no prizes for guessing: gnulinux-versions out only because hey! the foss community is collateral damage in the business-rivalry between google and microsoft. 02. it's not free software. they deserve a google-whack! for all my whining, i do use google's web-search engine, and am using their gmail service to send this email. i also appreciate their summer-of-love distortion, and their releasing a whole of developer-centric stuff back to the community. however, is there any way of communicating with google that "just being useful" is okay, but not being community-focussed and with proprietory software for end-users, they are as, ummm... "evil [is that a good word?] as microsoft"? proprietory, free-to-use software is freeware. and those are as valuable to a software-firm, as giving away free cigarettes is for a cigarette-vendor. :-) niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
