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Re: KDE and Google
by Lee on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @02:57

Free Software is about Freedom and independence. It fundamentally should NOT get into bed with proprietary software/services companies. And that's aside from all the reasons that a desktop shouldn't depend on access to a website.

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Re: KDE and Google
by T. J. Brumfield on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @13:23

Google gives to open source as much as any company. They have open API's for their proprietary services. And I'm sure that integrating those services would be an option you could opt out of when compiling KDE if you so chose.

Claiming that Google is evil and proprietary is pretty silly. Google is the anti-MS.

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Re: KDE and Google
by Philipp on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @01:26

>Google is the anti-MS
That's nonsense. Google is the other (not yet) MS.

OTH Google is also a datasteelingandselling monster.

This is now my personal preferation, but I won't ever use any Google based services for my personal data.

If others do, I let them do as it is their live. I just want to have them warned.

Let the future tell us to where it will go when companies know all about your whole live...

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Re: KDE and Google
by yxxcvsdfbnfgnds on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @02:29

> Claiming that Google is evil and proprietary is pretty silly.
> Google is the anti-MS.

You are silly. Of course is Google against MS. MS is Google's competitor. Just like Wal Mart is against Amazon.
MS was also a strong supporter of open standards when Novell Netware ruled corporate networks. Once WinNT took over, all the standards support disappeared.

Google's most important goal is to spy on users to better target ads on them and in turn make more profit. Google supports open source to improve its image within the geek community. And it works. Every other company would get lots of bad "press" for the spyware included in e.g. the Google Firefox Toolbar, its use of tracking cookies, and so on. Google does not. It's sometimes even seen as messiah.

If Google wants to contribute to OSS projects (because they use those prohjects internally and don't want to maintain an internal patchset or for whatever reason) then fine. But don't become dependant on Google alone.

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Re: KDE and Google
by Max on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @11:35

Nobody ever said we would. We just want their support. The more people work on KDE, the better, the wider audience it gets.

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Re: KDE and Google
by Max on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @11:34

Well Google at least TRIES not to be evil!!

Name another big software services company that has so openly embraced that philosophy. Google is a good partner.

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Re: KDE and Google
by Steve on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @16:34

Or for you cynics out there:

"The enemy of my enemy (Micro$oft) is my friend (Google)."

So at least for now it's great to ask for Google's help, and to work TOGETHER with Google.

Why would you give up privacy if you did that?

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