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03/24/09
Obviously it would matter to its employees and its stock holders, but really... Unless I'm missing something, what would it matter to the US economy if a bunch of free software, webmail and the G1 simply vanished?
I guess I would be upset about gmail, but I could always just use another search engine...
What about them is so important that failure matters to the country as a whole?
And, seriously, even if there is an argument for this; to compare them to banks that have gotten to big to be allowed to fail is impossibly absurd.
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I admit that I do not trust anyone, but I do not know enough to know whether the experts are wrong. Until I do, I guess I have to assume that there is some truth in what they are saying, and we probably need to give someone the tools to determine whether a company is too big and make a change.
That said, the question for technology companies is not whether Google is too big, but perhaps whether Microsoft is too big, or potentially Apple is too big. As others have said, Google is nothing more than an advertising company. Microsoft and Apple are something entirely different. Microsoft is simply huge and their software divisions make it difficult for other companies to play on their turf. Apple, while much smaller, does not allow anyone to play on their turf unless they have personally approved it. Those companies are much more questionable than Google.
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AFTER he took office Obama said he wanted to emulate Lincoln, who knew little about military matters before he took office but learned on the job. He wasn't talking about military matters though, he was talking about the economy and admitting (finally) that he had no clear understanding of it.
So, now we all get to participate in one man's job training program.
As to computer "experts" (and admittedly I R one) I have never seen a profession so filed with "rainman" types who know how to do one thing really well but have trouble dressing themselves.
The fawning over one left-wing candidate after another looked like more of a quest for "miss congeniality" than a contest of ideas.
Now that it's too late, we will get to see what Obama actually stands for. I'm still not sure, and I'd still like to see his college grades. At least with Bush and Gore we KNEW that they almost flunked out (even if the media quickly forgot that in Gore's case).
02/19/09
Oh the irony!
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02/19/09
This was horribly researched. Any list that doesn't include New Media Director Joe Rospars, the architect of Obama's entire web strategy, is a farce.
02/19/09