Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• arc99@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Exactly. Open source is fine when it suits them but not fine when it doesn’t.

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  • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is why GNU GPL is very importand.

    Here the GNU GPL comes to the rescue. The programmer shows the boss that this proprietary software product would be copyright infringement, and the boss realizes that he has only two choices: release the new code as free software, or not at all. Almost always he lets the programmer do as he intended all along, and the code goes into the next release. ref

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• skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To me it feels like there’s two Googles. The one that was run by Page and Brin was awesome, pretty much everyone in the industry wanted to work there.

  Then they put someone else in charge to maximise shareholder revenue, and it went to shit soon after.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Public companies will always become so. They were only good because they were in the growth phase, the internet is not in the growth phase any longer, a few corporations control the gates to any industry, internet or what have you, and are squeezing everyone else.

    Our wages go down every year in value as real inflation is higher than the cpi, while investors increase their margins at our expense. And we are too dumb to know it, trusting them, even now.

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