Google's Turn To Be The Villain

caesar79 writes "The New York Times has an article titled "Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain" (also evil but at least free registration required) According to the article, the "go-getting" attitude of Google is coming across as arrogance to many people in the Valley. More importantly, it draws attention to the fact that Google has drained the market of talent, caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries and made it difficult for startups to get funding."

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If Google isn't guilty then Microsoft isn't either

[suitepotato]

because they are essentially being tarred for the same thing that MS has for years, that they are leveraging their current financial strength to put their fingers into every cookie jar they can and because they are so large, the presumption of instant stolen thunder is made. But we said that about IBM when MS was a start-up and where are they now? Licking the rear of the Linux community in a pathetic attempt to co-opt some sort of audience to get their numbers going again. (Note to Linux weenies: IBM gave the world OS/2. It sucked like the intake of a TF30-414A. Run from their power of mediocrity while you can. Think of them as SCO in disguise. Run.)

Google can get into anything it likes just as anyone else can. So can MS. Or Novell or so on. Income inflation for techies is a GOOD thing after the dual nuclear economic bombings of the dot com and telecom sectors. So I think this is just sour grapes.

I will agree that they get way too much free and overly uncritical positive press from the crowd around here as does Apple. Let them earn it for good things and not because it fits into the lazy chintzy mindset of "well, it doesn't cost anything, it's free".

Re:So outsourcing doesn't cut it eh?

[quark007]

well..check this link http://www.google.co.in/jobs/sw-bangalore.html Is it not outsourcing??
Google is Google because of its nack to offer the best...wherever it operates.