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Google owns Android, the most used computing platform in the world. It is official, Google is the new Microsoft.
by glogla 9y ago
Google owns Android, the most used computing platform in the world.
It is official, Google is the new Microsoft.
- dorfsmay 9y agoTo me, that's one more reason to use Firefox over Chrome/Chromium.
- sqeaky 9y agoCompare the scale of Google's Scandals to Microsoft's scandals? Microsoft lied to the Justice department, microsoft intentionally broke software on other system, microsoft actively tried to kill open source, microsoft tried to co-opt standardization bodies, microsoft has bought competitors only to fire their staff, microsoft has... Microsoft has a plethora of criminal charges levied against it. Google.... Reads your email if send to or from Gmail and sometimes some of its things don't work in FireFox and even then they try to fix it. Google open sources a bunch of things, even when there is no obvious profit motive or requirements to do so. There is a world of difference. Google's shit doesn't smell like roses, but they are only human and not overtly evil. EDIT - If you downvote me, please comment so I can know what part of what I said was wrong.
- stephenr 9y agoGoogle does have a profit motive to open sourcing things though: keeping positive developer mindshare.
- johnsmith21006 9y agoGoogle corporate culture is vastly different than MS during their heyday.