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Q&A: Google's open-source balancing act
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| Is it true you still use 2.4 kernels?
| In some places, sure.
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| How about for the core search product?
| I don't know how it's partitioned out. When you think of Google, you think of
| search being on top of a kernel that's static. It's not always like that. It
| differs on data centers. I think 2.6 predominates, though.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9952719-39.html
Google Now Hosts Open Source Libraries
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| Today, Google announced a partial solution to this problem that seems obvious
| in retrospect: Google is now offering the "Google Ajax Libraries API," which
| allows sites to download five well-known Ajax libraries (Dojo, Prototype,
| Scriptaculous, Mootools, and jQuery) from Google. This will only work if many
| sites decide to use Google's copies of the JavaScript libraries; if only one
| site does so, then there will be no real speed improvement.
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http://ostatic.com/163191-blog/google-now-hosts-open-source-libraries
Better than the binaries from Adobe. They fight to keep the Web parsable
(open). And... the future is mobile (Google has Android... open and
Linux-based):
Google boss has high hopes for the mobile internet
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| Schmidt was less enthusiastic about the advertising possibilities of online
| video portal YouTube and DoubleClick. Indeed, he was not particularly happy
| with the advertising prospects of Web 2.0 at all.
|
| [...]
|
| Viacom's position, said Google at the time, threatened the way hundreds of
| millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment,
| political and artistic expression. Google's lawyers repeated the claim in
| papers filed last week in New York at the court dealing with the Viacom
| lawsuit.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/108584/from/rss09
Recent:
Is Google Android the Next Windows?
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| On the flip side, Good Android (here’s a video demo) is a cross-platform
| software environment that multiple hardware vendors and service providers are
| expected to embrace. Although Android isn’t fully baked, Google is
| aggressively promoting the operating environment to third party developers.
| The idea is to get developers on board early, so that tons of Android
| applications are ready when Android-compatible devices finally debut.
|
| [...]
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| Eventually, The VAR Guy suspects, Android devices will easily leapfrog
| iPhone’s market share. But that’s not a terrible thing for Apple. Although
| Apple nearly died on the desktop, Apple’s more recent innovations prove that
| you can thrive even when you hold less than 10 percent of a technology
| market.
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http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/03/20/is-google-android-the-next-windows/
Google to give Sydney demo of Android platform
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| Developed by the Open Handset Alliance, Android is a complete set of software
| including an operating system, middleware, a user-friendly interface and
| applications.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=991636751&rid=-50
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