Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
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?
None, they are a propritery software company, but they have a stated
policy of not tying their users to propritery protocols and they seem to
abide by it very well and I find it refreshing compared to the practices
of other comapnies, Microsoft included.
So they are not saints, but they are not devils either.
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.
I have no idea what BPL is so I can't form an opinion.
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.
Either choice they would have made they would have made someone angry.
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.
I don't see any problem with blanketing the world with free wifi.
Actually, I'm all in favour of them doing that.
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.
Once again, I appluade their dedication to excellence and hope they will
raise the bar for other companies hiring practices even further.
Gilad
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