samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 22 2008 | google, software, web apps, public transport, australia"While Perth will be the first Australian city with Google Transit, company officials said the search firm was in talks with other state transport authorities and expected the service eventually to be available Australia-wide."
Good luck Google if you're bringing this to Melbourne. Unless you cater for our broken system, all Google Transit will do is remind us what public transport should be.
"Why don't we have all the (applications) on the network - and by the way it's free," Mr Schmidt said in a dig at Microsoft."
Arrogant twat. Nice to see he conveniently forgets that we're actually giving Google all our data for free so they can effectively on-sell it and make more money at our expense. There's no such thing as a free lunch, people.
- samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 20 2007 | software, google, open source
"Google hopes to promote third-party mobile software development and foster a broad developer community on top of Android's Linux-based mobile platform... Although the underlying Linux kernel is licensed under version 2 of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License (GPLv2), much of the user-space software infrastructure that will make up the Open Handset Alliance's platform will be distributed under version 2 of the Apache Software License (ASL)."
Good analysis here, and a very smart decision by Google. At least one heavy user and contributor of open-source software realises that the world isn't open-source vs. proprietary (although that may be because a lot of Google's stuff is proprietary built on open-source code).
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