Google has emerged today as leader in web services and slowly also expanding to offline services. They have been the biggest supporters of free and open source software, sponsoring almost every event that endorses open source, supporting every open source product based company financially as well as technically. Also itself has been conducting a lot of events to bring together developers of the open source community. Most people are now under the impression that Google is the Messiah that has been created to save the world from the "evil" Microsoft. Their premiere argument being that Microsoft does not give enough rights to the user and they're evil and they are hacking into all your data and they're evil and they dont give you code and they're evil, though I appreciate the fact Google has been able to sideline itself from 'directly' making these alligations.
Almost every computer user uses Google's tools for any kind of web service used by him and as an icing on the cake these services are completely free of cost. We love everything that comes to us for free, and why not, we work hard to earn that money. Now Google understands that well, doesn't it? Thank You Google.
Now where my understanding of Google beats me is why doesn't Google release the source code of its own products. To start with, well i'm using the search engine am I not entitled to have the source code for it, if the code for my operating system happens to be my birth right.
Now have we seen an open source version for googletalk with all its features for Unix based systems?Shouldn't they give the code for gmail to its every user.
Web services certainly are different but again they're being used by me, take my private data and run mostly on my PC. Why must I not view what data is being captured from my system or the application I have opened using these services.
Another point I would like to specify on these web services by google, how many of them have been Google's own creations and have made it big except for the search engine.
Orkut, google's socializing site was made by someone else, bought by google.
Blogger, this very site was bought by Google not released by them.
Youtube, again bought by Google.
It certainly is quite honorary to be taken over by google. Every start up dreams of it. Why, because they've done a lot of hard work in creating the start up, and if they're getting a hefty reward for it right at the moment, why reject it.
I would say Google was lucky, it wasn't taken over by any major comapany during its time of creation. They tried but Alta Vista was too snobbish for that. Now Google does not want to see a repetition of 'The Google Story'. They buy every possible company which emerges as a possible competition. It certainly is the Emperor of Internet ruthlessly conquering every small opposition in the most nascent stages.
But the emperor's insatiable thirst for power also has its eyes set on the offline services. Their biggest competition is Microsoft, "Well, they're bigger than us. We can't buy them. Hmm!! so my enemy's enemy is a friend. Hence, it befriended the open source community. All they have to do is pump in some money from time to time and Microsoft is busy parrying off the open source guys. Now they've come up with android(which was not introduced as open source) to enter the phone markets, and another mentionable feat by Google, CHROME. I don't understand what were they thinking, we put together the open source brilliantly built browser in the market, replace it with our label and reintroduce and with a privacy policy that we can use any data that you open with chrome. Wha ha wha!!!
Oh! and another thing I forgot to mention why are none of the open source products by Google(of the very few) that I know of GPL licensed?? Why do they go for something else like Apache Software licenses? Why do Google's products fail to provide the Four Kinds of Freedom?
Now Google I'm sure is just waiting for the right time to release its own OS though not very soon I'm sure. Just as soon as they can get enough from the open source community on Microsoft which could take a while because I think now its time People understood the Evil that is GOOGLE.
I hope the open source community realizes this before its too late.
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Fucker thats flicked from mine..
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