http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html en-gb 30 Thu 24 Dec 2009 08:51:30 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=17#comment8 I see they are copying Apple again. That doesn't work as Apple are always 3 steps ahead. Wait till you see the price of the new iPhone compared to a blackberry. Mon 02 Jun 2008 15:08:26 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=15#comment7 Whether they used monetary amounts to estimate the value of the gratis software they looked at or simply ranked them, they do not say. It doesn't matter. What matters is that they described OO as "freeware".What /really/ matters though is that they lumped freeware, shareware and FOSS all together in their survey, failing to make the distinction and consequently significantly undervaluing FOSS. I suppose it would've been adequate and appropriate to do so if they'd stuck to single items of cross-platform software, like FF and OO, but they didn't. Sat 31 May 2008 13:22:25 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=13#comment6 Possibly the word "value" meant something other than monetary? Sat 31 May 2008 12:11:35 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=11#comment5 Quite. The fact that FOSS is usually free of charge (and, of course, its distribution can't ever be effectively restricted by a price tag) often confuses people and leads them to believe that that is the most important thing about it, when actually it is of no importance at all.The BBC Click team tripped themselves up over this same issue recently - among other errors and faux pas describing OpenOffice as the best value "freeware" they had come across! Sat 31 May 2008 06:13:04 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=8#comment4 4 - You seem to be missing the point about Free software; you can develop something based on Gears or the web toolkit and Google has no more rights over the end result than you do; how exactly is this a bad thing?That said; Maggie's mixed Google Earth into the same sentence as the other two, then talked about Google's "commitment to open source", Earth is not open source. Fri 30 May 2008 19:24:59 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=6#comment3 There is nothing comes FREE in this world, google is making the whole world fool. They are throwing tools free out there so that people can work on those tools for free and then google make money from those product. Fri 30 May 2008 16:36:15 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=4#comment2 "the reasons Google *invests* in things "is if it benefits Google economically." Fair dues"This ranks up there amid dumbest statements I've ever read - kind of redundant isn't it?Definition of Invest:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invest"...in hopes of getting a future return or interest from it"Or is there another reason to invest? Fri 30 May 2008 14:05:36 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=2#comment1 The BBC really needs to implement a spellchecker in its blog engine. Clammering? Or is that an American spelling? I'm clamouring for an answer! Fri 30 May 2008 11:48:17 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/google_gives_it_all_away.html?page=0#comment0 The BBC really needs to implement photos which can be enlarged on its website - I'd love to see bigger versions of the top two on this post but I can't for some reason. Fri 30 May 2008 10:39:28 GMT+1