Hello, > But the fact is the core is GNU/Linux ?? and by that could it be > implied > that they actually have to release the OS etc as under the GPL > license. The GPL says that if you make any modifications to the software and you keep it to yourself and don't sell, redistribute it, you can keep the modifications secret. So as long as Google is not selling their OS/software, it's perfectly ok to continue without infringing the GPL. > If hardware costs are so cheap what prevents other service providers > from having similar email spaces. Well, because Google has some pretty neat ideas which others don't have! Honestly, Yahoo!, etc. have way to many users than GMail. Basically Google's idea of having an invitation system did all the magic for them. It ensured that the user base increases in an exponential rate and they also get to control the number of users by controlling the number of invites. That way, they could stess test the Hardware and gradually improve the system. Otherwise, if they'd opened all the gates for the users at the start, the system no matter how big would have conked. Yahoo! guys don't have that privilege. They are the biggest website in the world and it'd be hard for them to upgrade all accounts to 2GB suddenly. But they are doing it gradually, it's already 1GB on Yahoo! and that's pretty good I'd say. Regards, Bhaskar
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