Re: How do members access the group?

On Oct 17, 9:44 am, dsi1 <d...@spamworld.com> wrote:
> Ken wrote:
> > And don't worry about the Google monster - its time will come.
> > Everything has its use-by date. (Has anyone managed to download Chrome
> > to XP? I have tried about 6 times). And as this thread illustrates,
> > Google Groups is a long way from dominating the usenet. Hopefully
> > Google has learnt the wisdom of keeping its fingers out of  the vast
> > information resources to which it provides access. If it ever tries
> > the sort of heavy-handed stuff we saw recently by EBay  its empire
> > will collapse overnight.
>
> The Google monster is still growing. Google Groups will continue to
> grow, accelerated by the ISPs dropping Usenet service in 2008. Today
> Google has made available it's Google phone which uses its Android open
> architecture OS. It's just another phone but it's really the start of a
> battle for dominance in the hand-held OS market and Google's attempt to
> make MS and Apples hand-held OS "irrelevant." I suspect they have a good
> chance of doing just that and of course, they intend to tie the OS with
> Google branding very closely. Personally, I've not paid much attention
> to hand-held OSs but a friend considers it as important if not more
> important than the desktop/laptop OS market.

But what a resource! You can type any question or a few words into
Google and mine any of about ten sorts of data - straight web,
newsgroups, images, you tube etc. etc. and the way they store, for
free, the massive data base of usenet posts. In the coming world of
cloud computing, I believe (though I have not tried it) that they
offer a suite of software rivalling M/s Office. Well, that is nothing
new - Open Office did it years ago. Google are also reported to offer
the best email host - again I have not tried it - I am hooked on
Eudora. But one marked difference between the Google monster and the M/
s one is that Google has embraced open source and open access. M/s
have always sought to make problems for other software sellers and
have always been funny about source code. Also another fundamental
difference, M/s got off the ground by seizing, and marketing, its
initial package - M/s Basic the bulk of which was written by someone
else. M/s can claim credit for Quick Basic (which became Visual Basic)
but even there I wonder how much they took from Turbobasic? On that
foundation, plus the luck of IBM choosing MSDOS, M/s took off.
Google, as i understand it, launched itself on the strength of its own
innovative web search software and have continued to innovate and
offer ready access to other media and is an active participant in open
source (OK - it stands to make billions from it!). What I am
suggesting is that the Google business model is fundamentally more
benign than M/s. And if it changes away from that philosophy then it
will go the same way as M/s is about to go.

And another gripe about M/s - the only time they gave anything away
was IE. But their motivation was not benign. They effectively killed
off the real pioneer of web browsing software (now resurrected as
Firefox) . They followed the same path with Word Perfect. I avoid M/s
Office on principle!

We had better let this thread die - almost as bad as when we, somehow,
got loose on one Sarah. Though this is far less off-topic. The medium
is the message. Google - meta-medium! There i go again!
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