Google playing politics with open source
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| It’s a false choice, in part, because neither Google nor Microsoft can come
| to the argument with clean hands. Google’s open source efforts are mainly
| done under Apache licenses, which don’t require they be shared. It does not
| support the AGPL.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2143
The sum of Google’s fears
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| The Internet does not represent one market, but dozens. Search may appear to
| be the base of that market, but we’re not talking about a pyramid here, as we
| were with software. There are far more dimensions to the Internet
| opportunity.
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| I doubt Microsoft could even achieve dominance in search, buying Yahoo.
| Yahoo’s search capabilities aren’t constrained by capital, or by people.
| Money is not the reason Google dominates search at all.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2145
Microsoft lost some more search engine market share in the US in the latest
report from February (ComScore).
Related and recent:
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
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| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that. Perhaps Google on that layer...
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
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