that's just nonsense. You are essentially saying Google FINALLY found Jesus or the like.
They were there, promoting China's censorship for the $$$ for most of a decade. Now you are saying they have ethics??
You can be sure that what Google did in China was publicity stunt of somekind aimed at trying to scratch and claw their way back to some level of ethics after being totally void of any for 10 years. You can't honestly be buying that, can you?
Google would back over your Grandmother to make a buck, please wake up and smell the coffee. They do nothing w/o the goal of making money as the end result. Sure they try to put on a guise of "do no evil" but that motto died off within the first year after they started using it all of those years ago.
Google and moreso Apple, who both use open source, have been harmful to open source in the long run. Apple, specifically Jobs, has done nothing but use open source projects for his own gains and dropped them or left them in limbo after he gets what he wants for his Proprietary systems. The original openDarwin team is a glaring example. Jobs used them to build out GCD and blocks in C in return for a promise he would back the existence of a full blown openDarwin system, but as soon as he got what he needed he left that team hanging, with a don't call us, we'll call you message and they entire team quit in disgust of being used by Steve Jobs, not even close to a full workable open version of the OS. But Jobs got what he wanted. I don't see how open source continually falls for that kind of thing, because Google does basically the same thing.
They are not going to release their internal Linux OS code to the world anytime soon and most of the main products are closed source. Even the old Google desktop was mostly closed. Anyone that downloaded the code for it soon found out how much was missing.
Their search engine based on Linux is closed and pretty much a monopoly but there is no public outcry for them to open up that code. Why not? Why did the open source world stomp their feet and scream foul about Windows being closed yet say nothing about Google or Apple.
It makes no sense.
It reminds me of the small business owners that are die hard conservatives. I mean I respect their beliefs, but many of them actually believe the BS the Repubs are giving them about the money they pay in taxes being THEIR money and they never seem to realize that they are not the ones getting the tax breaks, and under the Dems they are much more likely to see tax breaks at their income levels.
I think the open source world is similarly fooled into thinking those who claim to be on their side, truely are. How can people be so blind to the reality?
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