On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
2009/5/29 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
Probably, some of you already saw that Google
made something for which
I think that it will be the new form of the mainstream Internet
perception. You may read Slashdot article [1], a good description at
the blog "Google Operating System" [2] (not officially connected with
Google) and, of course, you may see the official site with more than
one hour of presentation [3].
I've watched pieces of the presentation, but not the whole thing. Is
it clear at this point exactly how free/open the entire stack is going
to be? I.e. will it have dependencies on proprietary services to work
or work well?
They say that messages which don't have recipients on google's server will
never go through google. So, sounds like the protocol will be completely
open, and that there won't be any dependencies on proprietary services.
They must have something up their sleeves, though.
Or maybe not. How much does Google make off of gmail compared to its total
profits? As a shareholder I guess I should know that.
Maybe they'll keep the search part proprietary. And the translation, spell
checking, and other parts that aren't necessary for the reference
implementation. And hope that's enough.