On Thu, Aug 25, 2005, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: PC-to-phone VoIP": > 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?
Not being open source is not the same as being "the next Microsoft". Just pick another random software company that is not open-source - are they also "the next Microsoft"? > 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 you're talking about, and I assume most of the other readers of this list also don't know what "BPL" is, or why all these things you mention (shortwave, etc.) actually should matter to any of us, now that we have the Internet, which is far better than any of those options (most of us never could operated *servers* for these technologies, but can do so on the Internet. Also, Internet *clients* are far more versetile than the clients of these older technologies you mentioned). > 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. I never heard of this. Can you give a link to an example? > 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 Internet is the next "utility", after electricity, water and recently celular phones. Small businesses that think that they should offer this service themselves inside a shop, makes no sense. > 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. Again, I have no idea what you are talking about. What "hiring practices"? -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Aug 25 2005, 20 Av 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Are you still here? The message is over. http://nadav.harel.org.il |Shoo! Go away! ================================================================= 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]
