Great article from RedState: Google’s Business Model – Is Theft
Google is a monstrous Big Tech behemoth (Market Cap: $827 billion).
And they got to their obscene hugeness – almost solely by stealing from us.
Founded in 1998, Google was one of the first companies on the planet to figure out the Coin of the Internet Realm – is everyone’s data.
Who we are, what we do, what we like,… – all of it is laid bare online.
Google became masters of micro-collecting all that information. And then omni-directionally selling it to the highest bidders.
Most of us simply, ignorantly reveled in all the “free stuff” Google was “giving” us – Search, Gmail, Documents, Chrome browser, Android mobile operating system,….
What we didn’t realize – was Google has been engaged in the largest ongoing, rolling Identity Theft operation in the history of the world.
All those “free” Google products – were stealth conduits to all of our personal info.
I’m not sure I agree with their take on the Google v. Oracle case however. Most Open Source developers say that ruling against Google in the case would really harm Open Source. API’s are not really code – they are more like the surface controls of some machine. They are not the actual functioning parts of the machine, just the surface controls. There are only so many ways to make a button or a lever for example. So these seem like things that it is unreasonable to copyright.
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