Some of the Google API are released early to get contributions, testers and inputs to improve their services. In other words, they abuse their contributors to i

Some of the Google API are released early to get contributions, testers and inputs to improve their services. In other words, they abuse their contributors to improve their services without thanking them or helping them on the long-term. The translation service is one of them, the massive improvement of the translation service came from the many inputs received by people using their API. It shows again the importance of building free software along with their free network services. That's quite challenging and difficult but it shows that initiative like http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ is not completely useless on the long run.