Mike Walsh wrote:Hi, belham2.
Mm. So from what you're saying, it rather sounds as though Google have every intention of becoming 'The Internet'; period. And I suppose anybody who doesn't use their OS is going to have a very restricted access to the real web.....
That'll be the the biggest monopoly in the history of mankind.
And you're trying to tell me that if Linux as a whole doesn't watch out, it'll be pushed right out of the picture? From what you're saying here, it sounds as though Google have been covertly laying down the biggest infrastructure of all time, on the QT, without anybody else having a clue what they're up to. I'm sorry, but I've got one thing to say to that:-
BOLLOCKS.
Man, you've been watching too many 'conspiracy theory movies...' I know Google have got some grandiose ideas, but I don't see everybody else rolling over & laying down without one hell of a fight.....can you, in all honesty? Unless, of course, they've also been making making secret, back-room deals with all the hundreds of other tech companies who are needed for a smoothly-functioning web.
I take the view 'Better the devil you know', but even so; Google ain't that big that they can do everything themselves.....and just put two fingers up to the rest of the planet..!
Nope; your calculations are way out somewhere along the line, old son.
Mike.
LOL.
Well, all I can say to that is:
---I remember sitting in a conference room in HongKong, '89, with IBM execs, and the discussion about how Microsoft, having offered DOS to Big Blue, was just ridiculous, and that they thought they would be moving along just fine and dandy as things were. These execs literally said "it's like microsoft thinks in conspiratorial terms. LOL........the same refrain we are hearing nowadays as comings & goings by various entities move to build their own Net 2, Net 3, etc, etc. The rest, uhmmm, as they say, was history.
What's worse, this is not just about Google. This is the push in the next evolution of the Internet.
History is replete with this sort of crap...from any aspects of life. This is not about Linux's demise, that will never happen. What this is about is Linux losing a heavyweight champion behind it, and thus further marginalization occurring for Linux. I can't tell you enough to plz go study what is going on: the words cannot be written any clearer or made more easy to understand: Google's push is not going to be based on Linux. Period. Equally, as of right now, both Facebook and Amazon are saying this sort of move is long over do, and are heading down that road themselves. Christ, even Microsoft is already along their own path....study what is being done, Mike, with the infastructure and server builds Mr. Softie has been doing for the past 24 months.
These ALL are becoming a sort of closed source and walled-off net world, where protocols can be controlled, and where sccurity and safety can be enhanced greatly. Only companies like Apple are still staring like a dear in headlights wondering which way it should turn in this regard. There is no conspiracy...this is straight-up accelerated change and business death to business rebirth---at Internet warp speed.
So, dear friend, for lack of a better apt-phrase: you're missing the forest for the trees.
As ole' Bob D. would be singing..."gather round folks, come ye yonder, 'cause times they are changin''.....but, hey, in many people's minds they'll still have lots of time to sit back and say "naw, man, this isn't happening and never will, times are just like they always were..........Peace and love rule all
