[joelhaus]

Agreed. Sometimes I think the people who don't appreciate Google's "openness" are not old enough to remember either the early closed internet platforms (Prodigy/CompuServe/AOL) or the Microsoft products that are only recently getting around to open standards.

[stephenr]

Luckily, those people who didn't experience/don't remember the Microsoft experience the first time around, will get to experience it all over again now with Google.