Speaking as an insider, I call BS on this story.
I've seen a couple of cases where a departing employee left before their notice period was up. It is not common, certainly not policy and not limited to those leaving for Google. Most often, the employee was winding down the old project anyway and was anxious to get started on the new gig. Usually when someone gives notice in the middle of a project, the team is motivated to keep him or her on as long as possible, to suck the last drop of contribution possible.
You guyz should be ashamed for letting your rabid (and increasingly quaint) anti-MS bias trick you into accepting the premise of this story without confirmation. What's/. if not the hotbed of the passionate rationalist?
Let me offer an alternative view: that the Seattle tech scene containing MSFT, GOOG, AMZN as anchors and a fair number of smaller companies is evolving into a Silicon Valley society: easy, frequent mixing, good communications among the players and all parties very motivated to preserve their good reputation, well knowing that they will be seeing each other again.
I know Google is not evil and all, but they are a for-profit corporation. How will they monetize the email experience if everyone is reading email via desktop client? Will they continue to subsidize the email service from search revenues?
removing the cost of Operating systems Accounting software and Fabric CAD software Total lifecycle costs for those items is Acquisition + maintenance. Certainly the sum does not go to 0, and it might not even decrease under open source. What force drives the free, public distribution of Fabric CAD software to 0 bugs if the in-house improvements are not redistributed? And why would Haggar (one pants maker) be incented to release his cost-reducing fixes to the public distribution if it's likely to benefit Levi's (a competitive pants maker)?
But the user-facing web history has nothing to do with the internal data Google is keeping about your searches. The internal data has much more detail: where you were coming from when you did the search, which ads and links they showed you in the results, which you click on (and which you *didn't*), whether you came back later for more. All of this and more! And believe me they do *not* delete it when you delete your web history, or cookies.
It is the cost to you of having access to so powerful a tool. Whether it's a good deal or not I would not presume to judge. But you should definitely be fully apprised of the cost.
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Speaking as an insider, I call BS on this story. I've seen a couple of cases where a departing employee left before their notice period was up. It is not common, certainly not policy and not limited to those leaving for Google. Most often, the employee was winding down the old project anyway and was anxious to get started on the new gig. Usually when someone gives notice in the middle of a project, the team is motivated to keep him or her on as long as possible, to suck the last drop of contribution possible. You guyz should be ashamed for letting your rabid (and increasingly quaint) anti-MS bias trick you into accepting the premise of this story without confirmation. What's /. if not the hotbed of the passionate rationalist?
Let me offer an alternative view: that the Seattle tech scene containing MSFT, GOOG, AMZN as anchors and a fair number of smaller companies is evolving into a Silicon Valley society: easy, frequent mixing, good communications among the players and all parties very motivated to preserve their good reputation, well knowing that they will be seeing each other again.
I know Google is not evil and all, but they are a for-profit corporation. How will they monetize the email experience if everyone is reading email via desktop client? Will they continue to subsidize the email service from search revenues?
But the user-facing web history has nothing to do with the internal data Google is keeping about your searches. The internal data has much more detail: where you were coming from when you did the search, which ads and links they showed you in the results, which you click on (and which you *didn't*), whether you came back later for more. All of this and more! And believe me they do *not* delete it when you delete your web history, or cookies.
It is the cost to you of having access to so powerful a tool. Whether it's a good deal or not I would not presume to judge. But you should definitely be fully apprised of the cost.