I'm of two minds about Google in general. Now it seems like they're only slightly better than the rest of the proprietary companies when it comes to free software: they can only do half the job.

They release the source code for Chromium, but then make their proprietary browser Chrome the most popular browser in the world. They create a free software mobile operating system, but then they distribute non-free applications and libraries with it. I can't wait for Firefox OS to come out, but I live in a country where its release date is never mentioned by any of the articles about it. And for goodness' sake I hope Mozilla can get free software right (even if they don't quite with Firefox).

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