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[Jimmy Wales]

:-)  Yeah! :)

Mark (Markie) wrote:
> heh, you should know not to take me seriously when i say stuff like 
> that, i say "evil" in the loose way that it is not as good as "us", but 
> really im still a google user and business is business so i dont really 
> hold anything against them (apart from not being WS :-p)
> 
> mark
> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com 
> <mailto:jwales at wikia.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Mark (Markie) wrote:
>      > hmmm we could do but then we would be using more google resources
>     (evil)
>      > but would then get free results (good), so we have to balance
>     that up.
>      > i know there was some open source kit somewhere, that did
>     geolocation by
>      > ip and JS calls etc, but i cant remember where/what it was.  will
>     have
>      > to see if i can dig it up again
> 
>     Just to be clear, I do not think that google is evil.  Of course I think
>     it is better when we think really really hard about how to create free
>     (in the sense of GNU) alternatives to currently proprietary solutions,
>     but I don't think we should be paranoid about google or any other
>     company... at least not to the point that it hinders our work. :)
> 
>     --Jimbo
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