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No Secret Plan at Google?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the what's-he-building-in-there dept.

daltonlp writes "A number of smart folks have speculated that Google might leverage its computational resources to create some kind of massive online application delivery platform. Here's why they are probably wrong." One of more intelligent insights into Google, and it's pleasantly devoid of theories of Google taking over the world.

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  1. 20% of company time to goof off (productively) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    From TFA:
    That 20% is also key for attracting talent. Working at Google has a lot of perks (so I hear), but for a developer, the ability to work on personal projects is magic. To my knowledge, no other company offers this.
    3M Does. Just thought I'd mention that.
  2. Re:How many open source projects by mikkom · · Score: 3, Informative
    I wonder how many of those are open source projects of various kinds.
    I don't think the employees can decide that, I think (at least that's what I've read on most sources that discuss about this matter) that your "pet projects" that are developed on worktime are owned by google.

    This is for example how orkut got born. "In affiliation" with google at the end of the page means in real world "This is google property".
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