[olug] Linux help

[Curtis LaMasters]

I 100% agree with TJ on this one.  Nicely written.

Curtis LaMasters
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:14 PM, T. J. Brumfield<enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a little bit off-topic, however all these paranoid notions of
> Google are ill-founded.
>
> When Bush was asking for search data on all users, AOL, Microsoft and
> Yahoo handed it over without court orders. Google said they would
> fight to protect their users' privacy.
>
> Google handed over private data on a user ONCE and that was in Brazil
> after multiple court orders, and that was only to hand over data on a
> kiddie porn ring. Honestly, handing over data on a kiddie porn ring is
> decidedly un-evil.
>
> Google treats their employees better than any company on the planet.
> Again, decidedly un-evil, and I think it speaks well to the true
> nature of Google management, and how they feel about their customers.
> Most companies speak publicly about caring about their customers, but
> treat their employees like dirt.
>
> Google has had a fantastic charity arm from day 1, as opposed to a man
> like Gates who was very anti-charity for ages, and his current charity
> organization has been accused of doing more harm than good (investing
> in evil companies, and only spending the bare minimum required by law
> on charitable activities). Google also leverages their technology and
> standing to try and do good, even when they aren't investing money in
> charity, such as using their massive data-farms to predict trends and
> distribute information on disease, etc.
>
> Google spends money hiring developers like Andrew Morton and then
> gives them free reign to work on the Linux kernel.
>
> Google runs the Summer of Code.
>
> They also donate code to other projects, such as their SQL improvements.
>
> Google isn't a brand new company that just popped up. They've
> championed for OSS and open standards. They've stood up for privacy,
> and always been very open and transparent about their privacy
> policies, and adjusted how long they retain data before anonymizing it
> to further protect users' privacy. In the history of their company,
> they have earned a good deal of goodwill, and done absolutely nothing
> to earn all these paranoid accusations, but still I hear them almost
> daily. Frankly, I tire of these "Google is evil" accusations. Cite
> some evidence, or stop making baseless claims.
>
> I would hope a LUG would appreciate the few allies it has in the world.
>
> -- T. J. Brumfield
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Tim & Alethea
> Larson<thelarsons3 at cox.net> wrote:
>> Curtis LaMasters wrote:
>>> Yes, but the moto is "Don't be evil" :)
>>
>> Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
>>
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>> Tim
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