Comments on: How Google Just Hurt Itself A Whole Lot http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/ Tech of Today, Trends of Tomorrow Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:36:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Van http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/comment-page-3/#comment-18120 Van Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:48:45 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=6249#comment-18120 I think that Google is trying to keep the search waves fair and unbiased. Although they offer alot of competing softwares and programs, Google has never looked at taking a side and has ranked all websites fairly based on its algorithm paramaters. I believe that Google has been the key in the new internet boom and we should be thankful for such an innovative search engine and company. I think that Google is trying to keep the search waves fair and unbiased. Although they offer alot of competing softwares and programs, Google has never looked at taking a side and has ranked all websites fairly based on its algorithm paramaters. I believe that Google has been the key in the new internet boom and we should be thankful for such an innovative search engine and company.

]]> By: Lacey Duvalle http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/comment-page-3/#comment-9895 Lacey Duvalle Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:19:10 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=6249#comment-9895 GET NOKIA N900, GET NOKIA N900,

]]> By: wibble http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/comment-page-3/#comment-8615 wibble Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:51:36 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=6249#comment-8615 Android itself *is* open source. Look, you can go download it and do what you like. Some of the apps shipped on Android devices are not open source. That is the way it is and the way it has always been. Nothing has changed. Whining that Android isn't open source because you can't redistribute the Google Maps app yourself is like saying that Linux isn't open source because you can't redistribute it with a copy of Photoshop bundled. You're fundamentally missing the point here. Android itself *is* open source. Look, you can go download it and do what you like. Some of the apps shipped on Android devices are not open source. That is the way it is and the way it has always been. Nothing has changed.

Whining that Android isn’t open source because you can’t redistribute the Google Maps app yourself is like saying that Linux isn’t open source because you can’t redistribute it with a copy of Photoshop bundled. You’re fundamentally missing the point here.

]]> By: website design http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/comment-page-3/#comment-8608 website design Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:33:40 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=6249#comment-8608 If we want to use 100% Open Source Software, we need to take searching the internet into our own hands. However for that to happen there needs to be more dominating public support of open source operating systems and software. Its a political thing, and currently the Free Software "party" doesnt have the majority in the "House" or "Senate". When searching is dominated by Free Software like web servers are now, I think we can say that developing using Open Source has finally succeeded. Many of Googles Open Source contributions could be said to keep that from happening for as long as possible. However there is a thin layer of contributions that can be tweaked to have the opposite affect; Chrome, Android, and Unladden Swallow are a few of those. If we want to use 100% Open Source Software, we need to take searching the internet into our own hands. However for that to happen there needs to be more dominating public support of open source operating systems and software. Its a political thing, and currently the Free Software "party" doesnt have the majority in the "House" or "Senate". When searching is dominated by Free Software like web servers are now, I think we can say that developing using Open Source has finally succeeded. Many of Googles Open Source contributions could be said to keep that from happening for as long as possible. However there is a thin layer of contributions that can be tweaked to have the opposite affect; Chrome, Android, and Unladden Swallow are a few of those.

]]> By: dudz http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/comment-page-3/#comment-8567 dudz Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:32:17 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=6249#comment-8567 You know what? Google didn't have much choice in the matter; if 3rd party proprietary software is a part of the whole then google has to abide by their rules. Just like people can't develop commercial software without following the GPL for example if they use GPL software. What this guy was doing is neat but it is against other agreements that google has going internally and with other software makers and the various phone companies. You know what? Google didn’t have much choice in the matter; if 3rd party proprietary software is a part of the whole then google has to abide by their rules. Just like people can’t develop commercial software without following the GPL for example if they use GPL software. What this guy was doing is neat but it is against other agreements that google has going internally and with other software makers and the various phone companies.

]]> By: ahronzombi http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/comment-page-2/#comment-8553 ahronzombi Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:30:51 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=6249#comment-8553 You said it better than I could. I hope more of us speek out. Maybe google will wake up and change this policy. Thank you for this editorial. You said it better than I could. I hope more of us speek out. Maybe google will wake up and change this policy. Thank you for this editorial.

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]]> By: Joe LaPenna http://techgeist.net/2009/09/google-hurt-lot/comment-page-2/#comment-8536 Joe LaPenna Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:20:05 +0000 http://techgeist.net/?p=6249#comment-8536 Its unfortunate you don't understand the separation between proprietary software and open source software. Its sometimes difficult to mix the two, but not impossible. The Android Open Source project is still open source. not "ish," Open; open like the Open Source Initiative defines; under an extremely free set of licences (Apache2 and GPL2) Open source implies the ability to have access to the code upon which software binaries are created. Open source does not express the freedom to share binaries made from this source, nor the ability to share other people's software without right. Don't sully the open source movement misunderstanding the issues here at hand. A big company and an independent engineer made a couple of faux pas in releasing unpublished software and sending a C&D, but don't confuse this issue with the openness of the android open source project. Its unfortunate you don’t understand the separation between proprietary software and open source software. Its sometimes difficult to mix the two, but not impossible. The Android Open Source project is still open source. not “ish,” Open; open like the Open Source Initiative defines; under an extremely free set of licences (Apache2 and GPL2) Open source implies the ability to have access to the code upon which software binaries are created.

Open source does not express the freedom to share binaries made from this source, nor the ability to share other people’s software without right. Don’t sully the open source movement misunderstanding the issues here at hand. A big company and an independent engineer made a couple of faux pas in releasing unpublished software and sending a C&D, but don’t confuse this issue with the openness of the android open source project.

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