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by taway990 5425 days ago
>Also, people who support Google believe in what Google believes - freedom, openness, personalization, and not getting overcharged and arm and a leg for the service they provide.

Openness, unless of course you are talking about the one thing that brings them money, that is surprisingly not open...I am sure it is just a coincidence...ohhh, no wait, it is for the 'good' of the end user, I forgot. Luckily for them it happens to also work out perfectly since it is their dominant source of income.

People's blind belief that Google's motivation is solely the good of the world is amazing, especially for people that claim they are objective.
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nate_meurer 5425 days ago
I don't think very many people around here have the kind of absolute faith in Google that you're talking about. Most often, Google is seen as the yang to Microsoft's (and increasingly Apple's) yin.

Google doesn't have too hard to be seen as the more ethical corporate citizen, given how low Microsoft has set the bar. Remember, this is the company that brought you such treats as the AARD code and the Halloween memos.

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sorbus 5425 days ago
You want Google to open source their advertising framework?
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cooldeal 5425 days ago
I don't know if you were being facetious but I think he meant the search engine. Forget the search engine, how about their flavor of Linux that they made all their tens of billions off of? Nope, that's closed too and the improvements aren't available to Linux developers.

If Linux were licensed under the Affero GPL instead of theplain GPL, Google would be infringing.

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rbanffy 5424 days ago
> that's closed too and the improvements aren't available to Linux developers.

Are you sure those are improvements most people would want to have? Google has a remarkably narrow set of requirements for their servers and it seems more likely than not that if they made changes to their kernels, they would not be regarded as improvements by anyone with slightly different hardware.

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sorbus 5425 days ago
> the one thing that brings them money

> their dominant source of income.

That's advertising.

(I admit to being slightly facetious, though).

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