Google Eliminates Gizmo5 Client For Linux

cuttheredwire writes "Evidence on the Gizmo5 forum (login required) confirms that since Google's takeover of Gizmo5, only the Windows, Mac, and iPhone clients are available for download from the official Web page. The Linux download link no longer works. This is a potential problem for happy Linux users with paid-up credit in their Gizmo5 accounts if they need to reinstall the software. A back-door download is still available, although it is speculated on the forums that it will go away soon. Does this mean that (as with other Google projects such as Google Talk) Linux will be the poor relation for Google Voice also?"

Comments

Sound on Linux Sucks

[johnsie]

I'm not surprised that companies are avoiding wrting audio software for Linux. Audio on Linux is terrible. It's the worst major operating system for sound engineering.

Re:Chrome OS?

[Macka]

First, there's no such this as Chrome (from Google) - there's Chromium the browser, which does exist for Linux and is kickass (I'm using it right now) and there's Chrome OS which - a) is linux, and b) can be downloaded in a VMware or VirtualBox image, so will run on any platform that supports those VMs.

Maybe you should use your brain before posting in future. Oh, right, you don't have one...

Re:Google: Community Taker, Not So Much Giver

[12357bd]

In fact Google is one of the larger contributors to the OSS movement that I personally know of

Then you dont know much

Or maybe could you please indicate some efficient massive text search technology released by Google under some open/free license?

Or maybe some decent OCR program (ocropus+tesseract are years behind what you get for free in windows with any HP multifunction scanner/printer) so that we could convert those millions of tiff's based pdfs to an editable format?

Perhaps you know of some GIS technology from Google, to allow open/free implementations of world modeling?

And please, let's not forget to mention the little support and even smaller cooperation of Google towards key pieces of the open source world, like the kernel, or java.

Google keeps perfectly closed his cashcow technologies, but those very same technologies are build UPON open/free software. That's the taking and not giving the parent poster was talking about.