[olug] Linux help

[Kevin]

Take the example of GMail: Capitalism in action(and in a good way).
When they first rolled it out, Yahoo was giving out mail accounts with
a 4 MB total mailbox size limit. Hotmail, 2MB. Then along comes GMail,
giving out an unthinkable GIGABYTE of space. Shortly afterword, Yahoo
upped their limit to 100 MB. Hotmail followed shortly afterword with
250MB. Yahoo replied back by removing the limit entirely.(I haven't
checked Hotmail again yet.)

Competition in action, and the consumer won.

I know that there were several others that did the same, giving size
limits that matched or exceeded Google's limit of the day, but they
were small companies, significantly lower in profile. Google was going
to give it to many more people than that.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 22:22, Curtis
LaMasters<curtislamasters at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim
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