[Wylug-discuss] Interesting view from a Google employee

[Richard Ibbotson]

On Monday 07 January 2013 21:52:04 D.Bolton wrote:
> "Linux Users can't be trusted to behave if they are taken out into
> public"

Just to finish this off a bit... I remember that a few years after I 
got my first 486 PC back in the early 90's I had an e-mail chat with 
the person who invented the Google search engine in a U.S. university.  
We had a good discussion with each other.  For him it was a bit of an 
academic joke.  Couple of years later one of his students got on to 
me.  Said that he was flat broke and was going to leave the project 
that he had been working on which was on a 486 at the same university.  
I air mailed him something like $100.  That kept him going for two 
weeks.  Just about.  Finished his project.  Then the business people 
arrived and took over and marketed the newly formed Google

Some years later I arrived at Mountain View in California on the day 
that SGI moved out and Google moved into the same building.  I was 
almost the only person to see the old SGI crowd walk out and the new 
Google crowd walk in.  Since then Google has gone downhill quite a 
bit. Greed has taken over.  My own experiences at the Saint-Ghislain 
data centre proved to me that Google is not anything like the 
organisation it was when it started.

-- 
Richard
www,sheflug.org.uk
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