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Old 11-30-2011, 10:17 PM
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Default Re: WTF happened to Google?

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Originally Posted by Adam View Post
Holy shit, they're winding down Labs? That, more than anything else, is sort of shocking to me, in that implies they're moving past the idea that they create awesome software with user participation and more toward the idea that they create products.
They mostly never did. They encouraged their users to promote their products, and used them as testers, but the actual work was in-house.

I suppose Chrome would be an exception, open source and all that. It's got a BSD license though. Once they don't need the community's free help anymore, Google is within their rights to close the code and only give people binaries.

I just realized something about the way they've promoted some of their products, like google mail. They give out ID's to some people, and allow these people to give out a certain number of free accounts to other people, who give out free accounts to others. This gives google a complete tree from start to finish of how the accounts spread from person to person.
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