This just in, Google dominates the search market!
The article starts off with a lot of mud slinging and statistics. I doubt anybody out there could be convinced that Bing has anywhere near the marketshare or mindshare that Google has when it comes to search! So thanks to the author for wasting two pages of our time with your cheer squad.
The author then goes on to talk about how Linux and GNU tools are occasionally used by Google. Because of this, any win for Google must be a win for Linux, the GNU and the FOSS movement simply by association.
I’d like to congratulate the author on qualifying the title with “sometimes”. That makes it pretty convenient to exclude the fact that most of their services and applications are developed with a variety of open and closed source tools, and that most of their software is not open source.
To the author, I’d like to ask where the source to all their other apps are? Where’s the GMail source, the Google Apps source, the Google Maps source, Blogger, YouTube, Google Earth, etc.? I guess those applications aren’t one of those times.
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Joy! “This post is not about the ethics of Google.” I sure wish they’d made that plain in the title. There was I, thinking it was about fluffy kittens.
“Summary: Google is throwing many chairs at Microsoft these days, metaphorically speaking.”
What, no video, metaphorically speaking?
I love the way that the loons have reified “Microsoft” into “Ballmer,” and assume that throwing chairs is an actual argument which, y’know, everybody will agree with because everybody knows that Ballmer throws chairs. Sometimes.
“We start with the important observation that Microsoft has just a 3% share in the search market. It’s going nowhere.”
Damn, that’s almost as important as the observation that Linux has just a 1% share in the desktop market. It’s going nowhere.
Sing it with me: “Sometimes, over the rainbows, ways up highs…”
Sometimes. Pah.
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