On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 20:48 -0700, JD wrote: > > On 06/25/2010 04:58 PM, Tom Horsley was caught red-handed while writing:: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:24:09 -0700 > > Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > > > > >> But... at what cost? > >> > >> You want google hold your messages and do whatever > >> they deem fit with it? > >> > > Why shucks! Their company slogan is "Don't be evil", > > surely we can trust them (or was it "To Serve Man", I forget). > > And now they'll hold all your voicemail for you for free > > with the new google voice service, and track your > > position for free by following your android phone, > > and backup all your files for free through your unsecured > > wi-fi access point. Golly! How could anyone be > > paranoid about such a wonderful company... > > (Anyone remember the movie "The President's Analyst" :-) > > > Did not google's founder expose a Chinese dissident's > identity to China's government and the executed him? ---- getting way afield from Fedora discussion but just to be more accurate, it was Yahoo and no, they didn't execute him. http://www.institutehrb.org/blogs/staff/google_china_decision_remarkable_courageous_and_far-reaching.html As for Tom's insinuation about Google - you are free to not use their services if you don't want to. There's little privacy on the Internet anyway but Google manages to eek a profit from providing advertising services that are somewhat easy to overlook but are ever present. Google is probably the least evil of all large corporations but of course things can always change over time but they do contribute a lot of GPL code, sponsor many open source lists, etc. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
