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I’m not disagreeing with your assessment of the grandparent’s comment but the argument you are making isn’t much of an argument. What does embracing “free” mea
by ugh 15y ago
I’m not disagreeing with your assessment of the grandparent’s comment but the argument you are making isn’t much of an argument.
What does embracing “free” mean? Does it mean anything? It sounds like meaningless drivel.
- esrauch 15y ago1) Free as in open source: they have had a couple high profile open source projects including Chrome (Chromium), Wave, I think Google Code is free for any open source project, they are the majority funding source of Mozilla and therefore Firefox. Practically every month there is some announcement like this about how they are supporting free software: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2060629/Google-Funds-Open-Source-Development-Initiative-at-Two-Oregon-Universities http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2060629/Google-Funds-Op... 2) Free as in liberated data; they make a big deal that it is trivial to import or export your data out of any of their services. If you are looking at your contacts in GMail it's as simple as More Actions > Export Contacts. Compare that with exporting contacts from Facebook. They have a whole "data liberation" API that they have been pushing for that is far more open than any other major player in the tech industry.