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Re: KDE and Google
by T. J. Brumfield on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @15:07

Conspiracy theory much?

The US Government was demanding private search data. Yahoo handed it over. Microsoft handed it over preemptively even before they asked. Google said they'd fight in court before they handed over one ounce of private data to the government. Google was the only search company to even attempt to fight Chinese censorship. They promote open source and open standards. They give almost all of their services away for free. Name one evil thing they've done.

The facts contradict your conspiracy theories.

http://xkcd.com/258/

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Re: KDE and Google
by jos poortvliet on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @01:44

Imho you are right. I would object to integrating with Google if it's exclusive, but otherwise I prefer Google greatly over their competitors. They spend a lot of energy on 'not being evil', which I respect (it's hard for such a big company to appear non-evil: some people will consider pretty much anything as evil, just because you're big).

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Re: KDE and Google
by yxxcvsdfbnfgnds on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @02:37

Just because other companies are bad, doesn't mean that Google is good. Google collects a huge amount of user data though all its web services.
Google is not a charity. Google is a company and the goal of every company is to make as much profit as possible.
There are various explanations why Google resisted. It could be that Google didn't want others to find out how much data Google collects. It could have also been a publicity stunt.

It was just relatively recently that Google agreed to anonymize its saved user data after two years. Without pressure from EU data privacy regulators Google had never done that.

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Re: KDE and Google
by winter on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @02:53

That's right. I just have to say this:
Email clients are great because you can send and receive mail from various servers with various protocols. RSS readers, web browsers, media streamers, etc etc etc are great because you can use them with what you want to use them with at you do not have to use them at all or be online to use them. Some of these apps you are talking about can only be used with one service. So they are IMHO useless. IMPO(in my paranoid opinion) they are dangerous because they keep users masked from the details and promote reliancy on companies and services. Google Talk - what is it? Skype - What is it? Pidgin - what is it? YATE - what is it? etc etc etc ... I think you get my point.

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