On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: […] > That is a fair point. OTOH, Google (by their very nature) is dead-set on > things like making sure the web gets treated as an application platform > and getting people to store their personal data on Google's private > "cloud" (a moronic and unnecessary renaming of the works "hosted" and > "internet", but that's a separate rant).
Interesting that Google are changing their terms of service so that (indirectly) Windows 8 RT users have to pay to access GAE. […] > Also I think another part of what makes Google (and Apple) so dangerous > is that unlike MS, most people are still hailing them as wonderful > and benevolent companies. The blinkered vision of Apple-heads is bizarre, but a great boon for Apple's bottom line. Unlike Amazon, Starbucks, Google, and Microsoft, Apple appear to be getting away with anti-competition practices with equanimity. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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