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As someone often accused of being a Google "fanboi"... I agree. I'm not going to abandon Go or Chrome or anything because they are fully OSS so if Google drop
by georgemcbay 14y ago
As someone often accused of being a Google "fanboi"... I agree. I'm not going to abandon Go or Chrome or anything because they are fully OSS so if Google drops them it isn't the end of the world, but I wouldn't dream of building a service (even a free for-fun one) on top of some Google Web API these days.
Maybe that's fine with them (seems like they have a corporate mission to eliminate the whole idea of free or nearly-free web APIs anyway), but regardless of their motivations they've proven to be a non-reliable provider of stable free-to-use web APIs over the past couple of years.
- orangethirty 14y agoYeah, that's the crazy aspect to this. I really like Go, Chrome, and a lot of the other things they offer. But to quote a character named Mr. Lahey from from the tv show "Trailer Park Boys": "Its all a shit-storm now." You can't built bridges on top of shaky ground.
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- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoChrome isn't OSS. You're thinking of Chromium.
- gcp 14y agoChromium for Android is a joke. It doesn't even have tabs and has nothing in common with Chrome. I wonder what they need to hide. Google is clearly not an open source company.
- flyinRyan 14y agoWhen was Google ever an open source company? Search, Gmail, Buzz, G+, .... what is it they do do open source?