I share your same sentiment on the Google dictator/evil thing. However, they are developing this software open source and will be able to connect to any service available online. You won't be locked into using gmail/gdocs/gwhatever... but they will provide that functionality up front. Remember, as part of the open source community, it is our responsibility to ensure that things like this don't happen. If teh Google creates this amazing platform and we sit on our laurels and it's completely tied into their services and theirs services only, then they haven't failed we have. On the flip side of this, so long as the EULA and legal side of things are taken care of, we, the users of Google's services will still retain the power to take our data with us. Corporations can only dictate when you have given the ability to dictate.
-Cody On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Holly Fortenberry < [email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for sharing Alex. Does this make anybody else nervous? I'm sure > their intentions are pure now (or started out pure at least); but, > absolute power corrupts. What happens down the road when Google > controls everything? I don't know if like having all my electronic eggs > in the Google basket (thus I have resisted total reliance on their > apps). Notice how they ask if you are a "good Google citizen" in the > article? Creepy. Seems like a vast monopoly to me, one to make MS seem > like child's play. Maybe I'm being paranoid...but, maybe not. > > > Alex S. Jones wrote: > > Google has just announced Chrome OS, "an open source, lightweight > > operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks." This > > has some interesting implications for Web professionals. In addition > > to the improvement of netbooks, which will see major growth in the new > > few years given the migration of data and key apps to the cloud > > (Google Apps are no longer in beta by the way), this opens the path > > for a wide variety of Web-based apps built by small companies and > > entrepreneurs to make a splash. > > > > Announcement: http://tr.im/chros > > Wired's Take: http://tr.im/chros2 > > > > What's your take? > > > > Alex Jones > > www.SilverSpider.com > > www.twitter.com/BaldMan > > www.RefreshAustin.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Cody Marx Bailey 979-574-9199 The Creative Space (.org) 211a West Wm J Bryan Pkwy Bryan, Texas 77803 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
