Which jurisdiction passed the law in question and, incidentally, what
precisely is the law in question?
jh
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From: "Dawid Loubser" <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Google Wave
> Brah-vo Charlie, I agree fully.
>
> P.S. I am greatly concerned about the inherent power people place in
> the hands of
> a single corporation like Google (who is by law mandated to make money
> for their shareholders
> above all other causes) in the form of willingly hosting or channeling
> *all* forms
> of information:
>
> - e-mail
> - documents
> - calendars
> - contact info
> - geographic / photographic information regarding locations
> - etc etc
>
> through this one company. Why do people trust Google so much? Far too
> much power
> that can affect far too many people are in the hands of one money-
> making machine.
>
> I truly believe that services such as web search must be via fully
> open-source
> software hosted on publicly-funded infrastructure. Google has woven
> themselves
> into society to such an extent, that their existence is almost
> guaranteed no matter
> what evil things they may choose to do.
>
> That is not right... Do we really want a world where ONE corporation
> owns your information,
> your web browser, your phone, your operating system, etc etc?
>
> Anyway, I just have a very bad feeling about all of this. On the topic
> of "Waves" though,
> for anybody who's read their information, the idea is quite a novel
> attempt at superseding
> older (but successful) forms of message-based communication, such as e-
> mail.
>
>
> On 01 Dec 2009, at 6:14 PM, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>
>> Another step toward assimilation into the Borg.
>>
>> Charlie
>
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