On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:22:47AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > You just have to love Google :-)
No, you don't. They are becoming the next Microsoft. While they use linux, how many of their wonderful products are open source? They invested $100,000,000 in BPL, which will destroy all long range radio communictions including shortwave radio, ham radio, VHF lowband television and all of the IDF communitcaions where you see the long antennas. A friend of mine from the U.S. pointed out that Google Earth uses the Arabic names for places in Israel that have both Hebrew and Arabic names. This has caused quite a stir in the Jewish community in Silicon Valley. They are planing on blanketing the world with free wifi, putting out of business the small business that are doing the same thing, and preventing places that offer wifi such as coffee houses from turning it off when they want customers to come and buy drinks, not use free wifi and buy nothing or stay for hours keeping other customers out. The New York times has an article about how their hiring practices have destoyed the job market in that area for startups. Personaly I think that's good, maybe more people will invest in startups here instead. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (077)-424-1667 IL Fax: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Support the growing boycott of Google by radio users and hobbyists. It's starting to work, Yahoo has surpassed Google. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
