<div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/1 Jeff McAdams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffm@iglou.com">jeffm@iglou.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">timeless wrote:<br>
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I also don't like how people enjoy a good run of corporation hunting.<br>
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First you go after Microsoft. Then you go after Google. Then you after Apple.<br>
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Many (most?) corporations choose to operate under a heavy veil of secrecy (*particularly* Apple). That choice is also a choice to open themselves up these criticisms. These corporations have to take the good with the bad. If they chose to operate with greater transparency, then they would almost certainly come into less criticism.<br>
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I have exactly zero sympathy for Apple, MS, and Google, for the criticisms they have received. They choose to operate in secrecy, then they choose to be the target of these criticisms.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not asking for sympathy, but I also don't think the characterization of Google as operating in secrecy is fair. There's a large number of people from the Google Chrome team participating on WHATWG and trying to contribute openly to these discussions. We're operating as an open source project, and trying to be as open as possible. At the same time, Google is a company whose purpose (as is any company) is to make money. YouTube is a separate team and not an open source project, I don't think it's reasonable to expect all of Google to suddenly release all of its information that has legitimate business reasons for staying company-internal. We've made what statements we can make, and I don't honestly think it reasonable to expect more.</div>
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Suck it up.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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Jeff McAdams<br>
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