Re: 10 years?
He should have raped his boss. They only give 6 months to first time offenders down there.
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I've never heard anything about Google as a company that they somehow need to or commit to being more open than any other company. In fact, on their corporate web site, they merely state that they "are active in open source software development, where innovation takes place through the collective effort of many programmers", which as far as I can tell they in fact are. Nothing in their corporate statements says anything about them needing to open anything, except that they are active in open source software development.
So where is this B.S. coming from? Did someone just assume that Google would open everything? Did someone make up some fanciful open source code of conduct that Google should adhere to? Tell you what, if you don't like what Google's doing, make your own, better search algorithm and release it to the world. Make your own, better ad serving software. Build a billion dollar company around these technologies and feel free to make them open source. Show Google how wrong they are. Or better yet, just stand in the peanut gallery and tell everyone what a horrible company they are and what huge mistakes they are making and that you'd do so much of a better job if you were king of it all.
Henry, your story is interesting but it smacks of pure internet bullshit. Please give us some details that would allow independent verification of this story.
Also, I think that anyone who's passed High School Geometry should be able to show a judge just how much slower a car with smaller wheels would go, even if the speedometer is showing a faster rate. And, if the perp where to say "Well, I don't know how fast I was going, but I know it was less than 80 MPH" without having any other way of gauging his speed, I say throw the book at the asswipe. The ONLY credible source of info on his speed was the Speedometer, however inaccurate.