Hi,
Just wanted to query the privacy policy, especially as it relates
to code. Would I be right in thinking that the only thing stopping
google stealing an app. or an idea for an app, or an algorithm or data
structure or whatever, is that you are such good guys?
This is the privacy policy I am reading -
http://code.google.com/appengine/privacy.html
I read the privacy policy to pretty much say you can do what you
want with the code? i.e. 'We use this information internally to
deliver the best possible service to you...' - you could interpret
that to mean pretty much anything, including ripping off an idea and
serving it back to us - (yeah, I know you are good guys).
A second question would be Google's policy for employees or
contractors etc. looking at the code of app engine apps? Are there
any internal controls? Do you maintain access logs? What are your
criteria?
An obvious situation would be a google employee reading a group
post, and saying 'Hey that's an interesting point, I wonder what app
they are building... let me just go in and look at their code... wow
that's cool... <days pass>... hey boss I have an idea for my 20% spare
time, how about we do this <subtle variation on app they looked at
recently>' - can you confirm that this does or does not happen?
It doesn't even need to be conscious - knowledge is knowledge, and
you can't 'unsee' something. I challenge anyone to see something done
in a better way, and then continue to do it in an inferior way,
because they are a 'good guy'.
It might just be a good idea to you, but it is IP and business
value that you shouldn't have access to. It is a significant barrier
to GAE adoption for many organisations. It is completely different
situation on a platform like Amazon (because I can protect my content
myself, among other things), and GAE requires a different policy than
'to provide a quality service'.
I realise this is covered by
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=501,
which is an absolutely crucial issue that, naturally, has no input
from google apart from acknowledgement. I'm not writing this post to
register my support of that issue, I've already done that. I'm
writing it to try and get some sort of meaningful response form
Google.
Would someone at Google please be able to elaborate? When do you
access our code? Thanks.
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