Comments on: Google’s Code is God

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:10:30 +0000

@bearded weirdie

I agree with that, but I think the question this time is will Google just buy up all of the next great innovations?

If that happens, then all the obvious and some what obvious innovations won’t make it to the point of over taking Google – it will take someone that doesn’t appear to compete with Google over taking Google.

Here’s a thought: Amazon has done a lot of diversification lately – will they perhaps one day over take Google? Or Apple? Maybe the next Google is already a large company that we all already know and not the surprise small startup.

By: bearded weirdie

bearded weirdie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:41:36 +0000

all the same kind of things that are now being said about Google have been said about Microsoft, and before that (in the 1960s) about IBM. Each time a colossus seems to reach that position of all-enveloping power it has proved in retrospect to be the moment before the next great innovation by-passes it.

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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 03:08:52 +0000

@Bryan:

I don’t believe I made anything up. I do admit to being a bit lazy, because I did not try to verify that Google did run on Linux, but instead went with my intuition. However, I also feel that I was in my right to do that, as it is clear that what I wrote was not presenting any facts. I clearly wrote, as you quoted, “my guess”.

Also, I attempted to verify that Google runs off of BSD after seeing your comment, but could not find a reference verifying this, while a search did reveal that Google does use Linux, as Kevin pointed out. If you have a link to back up your claims, then please share them, as I’m more than curious.

By: Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:22:31 +0000

Ummm, yeah. Your comment has two factual errors:

1) BSD is open-source. Maybe not to the Stallmanites, but to the rest of the world the BSD license is a completely valid open source license.

2) To the best of my knowledge, and I’m not a Googler, Google uses Linux extensively. Why else have they hired two high-profile Linux kernel hackers, Robert Love and Andrew Morton, in the past year? A quick Google search reveals this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform

which seems to back up Mark’s article and the common wisdom as well.