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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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