http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html en-gb 30 Wed 06 Jan 2010 05:36:47 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=17#comment8 Google keeps talking about open source in terms of neat little consumer app, but it’s the business space where there’s real money to be made. Android, iPhone, and of course, Symbian’s decision to go open source, are kick-starting more rapid innovation in the mobile space - making it easier for developers to get on-board and start creating new mobile applications. But you have to ask the question: what’s going to make more money – an application that lets someone order a cab with greater ease, or a field service application capable of doubling the productivity of a 3,000 strong mobile workforce? The sooner that companies like Google make a noise about mobile business apps, the quicker telcos will get on-board and make it happen, which will I’m sure help to drive jazzy consumer apps as well Tue 23 Sep 2008 16:07:21 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=15#comment7 > That would be gmail. A lacklustre, feature poor webmail client.I think you're missing the point of Gmail (and indeed all Google products): They don't do a lot, but what they do, they do very, very well. You say "feature poor", I say "streamlined". Tue 23 Sep 2008 12:41:22 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=13#comment6 Did Google really throw the gauntlet on open source code ? I'd love to believe them !! Am all eyes to see their search engine open sourced !! Am I askin for freakin too much ? Well then, can we please start with their privacy protection policies? Can they open source that ?Google knows how to make money from Linux and all that is open source. No surprise that for almost all that you search on Google, it is the open source, free wikipedia most often tops the search result, if not being in the top 3. And Google makes the money. Clever. Clearly. And no grouse on that.But Google claiming to be egalitarian by supporting open source sounds a bit like if KFC claimed they value the rights of chicken. Tue 23 Sep 2008 10:46:51 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=11#comment5 >When have Google ever made a bad product?That would be gmail. A lacklustre, feature poor webmail client. just as well it's free, because who would pay for it?For how good webmail can look and work, simply look at the competition - Yahoo's webmail or Microsoft's Outlook Web Access.Google make great search products, but the other efforts are pretty poor. Tue 23 Sep 2008 07:13:30 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=8#comment4 ^ I was referring to a desktop/laptop PC operating system, not a mobile operating system, just to clarify. Tue 23 Sep 2008 05:41:41 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=6#comment3 It's about time they released an open source operating system. I'm already a big fan of Linux, but if Google released their own version of it or made a completely new platform, almost all of the major software developers would start writing software for it, I'm sure.I bet it would be really good, too. When have Google ever made a bad product? Tue 23 Sep 2008 05:34:09 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=4#comment2 Google still trying to look the darlings of the open source worldwhilst single handedly trying to be master of the internetproviding the backbone, the browser, the tracking (google analytics) the advertising, the means of creating content (picasa, docs suite, apps etc...) and being the gate keeper to all this content with their search engine...Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.The way they are going about it, carrying all the content, creating all the content, gathering as much info about users as they can without gaining bad-pressOn their way to being the microsoft of the web age!!!Oh, but at least they support open source! Mon 22 Sep 2008 19:11:37 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=2#comment1 Google's logical next steps: an open source IDE and an OS. When are these coming? Mon 22 Sep 2008 17:11:06 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/09/google_founders_throw_down_ope.html?page=0#comment0 I can't wait for Android; I've been following the development quite closely for over a year.It'll be ages before I actually think about running Android on any hardware, but I am still very interested in how it pans out and the impact it will have on the industry as a whole. Mon 22 Sep 2008 14:42:46 GMT+1