One response to yesterday's article was simple, direct, and to the point...
"Not an article, just a bitter fantasy story."
I will admit the article was a little heavy on the sarcasm. and more than a little tounge-in-cheek.
But so is most satire.
You see, when a companies' mantra is "Do no evil", you tend to hold them a slightly higher standard.
When a companies' mantra is "Do no evil" and they do one of the things mentioned, but have a good reason, you tend to accept them at their word and let it slide.
But when they do similar things again, and again, and again, and again?
There's a line in Serenity when Zoe says, Sir, I don't disagree on any particular point. But..."
One has to ask just what's going on.
Did Google joined with Verizon on issuing a policy proposal that was criticized by some bloggers and journalists as damaging to net neutrality? Yes.
Is Davlik a "clean room" implementation of Java, or did they in fact strip out the headers, change some code, and publish it as their own? Oracle certainly seems to have a few problems with them.
Are they withholding the Honeycomb "open" source? They dance around the issue, and one can't argue too much with many of their reasons, but... a project is either "open", or it's not.
Did they pull Grooveshark from their free and unrestricted marketplace? Yes. And are they doing their own service? Rumor mill also says yes.
Will it be ad based? Does a bear...
Google shouts "open", "open", "open" all day long, but is Gmail or the bundled Android apps or their search technology open? No.
So. Add all of that up, and from my perspective, it seems that Google is in fact dedicated to "open source"....
For as long as it suits their purposes.
And that, in turn, they will no no evil...
For as long as it suits their purposes.
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