A Double Standard for Google? | Linux Today

A Double Standard for Google?

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Matt Asay
May 24, 2007

“Mary Jo then goes on to list a few things Google does that
Microsoft would never be permitted to do (employees asked to
refrain from wearing competitors’ t-shirts, investing in the
founders’ girlfriend’s/wife’s startups, etc.). But after two days
of OSBC, I think Mary Jo should be asking some slightly different
questions.

“Google gets away with a lot. Eben gave a passionate
presentation about not being someone else’s free lunch, but Google
routinely gobbles at the open source table while passing back
comparative crumbs…”


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