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This is a problem all over the place with Google. Them giving away VP8 and VP9 for example. SPDY and so many other things. I hate it but they should just ch

This is a problem all over the place with Google. Them giving away VP8 and VP9 for example. SPDY and so many other things. I hate it but they should just charge for things instead of giving away. Act more like a typical tech company. They give away more IP than any other company I am aware of. But they do not get any benefit and get hammered constantly. Just charge for things and end the open source and problem solved. Look at them giving away Android that is used on majority of Amazon hardware yet Amazon has banned all companies on their market place from selling Google competitive products. That is just insane. They created SPDY and gave it away to the standards committee. Who then changed it to create http2 and they had to go back and change their code with additional cost. The normal way is when you own the client and server you just use your own way to do things and use as a competitive advantage. Borg was a huge competitive advantage and they just give away K8s. Which is just silly. VP8 and VP9 they not only give it away but also even offer patent infringement protection to anyone that uses it. That is just insane. It is great because the MPEG-LA was extorting money with license fees and Google giving away caused VP8 ended that. But Google giving away just gets them hammered anyway and get no good will from doing it. I have zero idea why Google continues to give so many things away for free and not just charge. So charge per phone and then credit them if they include the Google services.

detaro 8y ago
> So charge per phone and then credit them if they include the Google services. That's unlikely to change much if they don't get rid of the criticized policies at the same time. The problem is not that they charge for inclusion of Google services!
- jacksmith21006 8y ago
  They just charge for a license fee for Android and then credit back if they include their services. Google has made it so people that can't afford to get an iPhone so they can get a smartphone. They have helped make it so smartphone technology is not only for the rich. Almost 2 billion Android devices are sold a year so does not take a couple of bucks for it to end up being a ton of money. Pretty much all going to the bottom line. Either way people will still use Google services. MS owns desktop yet most use Google search and not Bing. Even browsers which is a hassle as you have to down load Chrome but still most use Chrome which has about 12x the market share of Edge. "Firefox dropped below the 10% share value on Netmarketshare" https://www.ghacks.net/2018/06/04/firefox-dropped-below-the-10-share-value-on-netmarketshare/ https://www.ghacks.net/2018/06/04/firefox-dropped-below-the-... Google has over 5x of iE. In the end it is just the Google offerings are better. Really think it is a bad idea to penalize companies just because they offer better products.

detaro 8y ago

> So charge per phone and then credit them if they include the Google services. That's unlikely to change much if they don't get rid of the criticized policies at the same time. The problem is not that they charge for inclusion of Google services!

jacksmith21006 8y ago
They just charge for a license fee for Android and then credit back if they include their services. Google has made it so people that can't afford to get an iPhone so they can get a smartphone. They have helped make it so smartphone technology is not only for the rich. Almost 2 billion Android devices are sold a year so does not take a couple of bucks for it to end up being a ton of money. Pretty much all going to the bottom line. Either way people will still use Google services. MS owns desktop yet most use Google search and not Bing. Even browsers which is a hassle as you have to down load Chrome but still most use Chrome which has about 12x the market share of Edge. "Firefox dropped below the 10% share value on Netmarketshare" https://www.ghacks.net/2018/06/04/firefox-dropped-below-the-10-share-value-on-netmarketshare/ https://www.ghacks.net/2018/06/04/firefox-dropped-below-the-... Google has over 5x of iE. In the end it is just the Google offerings are better. Really think it is a bad idea to penalize companies just because they offer better products.