[clug] Linux Google OS coming..
Jason Stokes
glasper9 at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jul 8 04:38:02 MDT 2009
> Judging by Android, Wave, Code, Maps, and a bunch of other cool
> stuff that Google do, I don't think we have a huge amount to fear.
> Yes, they have a corporate agenda. But I think we'd know by now
> if they were going to suddenly decide to gouge everyone for advertising
> bucks and make their next trillion.
Google is a corporation. I expect it to do whatever maximizes its profits,
corporate culture notwithstanding.
Google is much less secure than I think people realize. It has played
fast and loose with copyright issues. By buying Youtube, it has inherited
a potentially incredibly huge copyright liability case and its google
books service, despite some agreements, is also a massive exposure
(I've read the guts of entire books for free on its "book preview" service.)
Its pockets are not infinite and it has spent zilions on products like
Chrome, gmail and google docs that have given it next to no
return at all. As the last of the dot-coms, there will be a crunch
time where it all has to pay, and at that point, expect a serious
time of reckoning.
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