Why should Google be remotely interested in fairness? OpenSocial might have been under development for a while, but it's announcement is curiously coincidental with Facebook's moves into the advertising market, one which Google appears to be gambling its future on.
The way they have pushed this thing forward - not at all open (and hardly social), doesn't exactly show the company in a good light. But this is a well-trodden path - Microsoft has rarely played nicely, yet they still manage to sell a lot of software. While in the long term OpenSocial may raise the sea that floats all ships (and because of that I believe it's worth pursuing), Google's immediate motivation seems to have been to cause a storm in the marketplace to shipwreck Facebook - purely tactical, not a little cynical. However I don't see much of a future in the globally connected environment for any company which hasn't evolved from 20th century Silicon Valley style - monolithic, secretive, arrogant to the point of Machiavellian principles. They may have some of the best brains on the planet, but as a corporate entity Google seems to have a rather outmoded attitude - brings to mind Gordon Gekko with a Rubik's Cube. ...I wonder how much darker a picture of Google can be painted before they deign to show the container API ;-) Cheers, Danny. -- http://dannyayers.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenSocial Container Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/opensocial-container?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
