[ga] Google Wants You To Be Its Unpaid Muse

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All and Vint in particular,

  Gee what a nice bunch of fellas and gals at Google eh? Work
for free for Google, while Google collects any revinue from
any idea you share with them.  Next idea Google will have is
for anyone that wants to submit an idea, first pays Google to
recieve it!  < sarcasim intended >  Vint, you have some more
Evangelizing to do on this score...

See:
"So where do you turn to for great ideas when tough
times force you to
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/google-not-even-pretending-to-be-an-engineer-run-company-anymore
abort your engineers' brainchildren? If you're Google, reports Nicholas
Carlson, you simply
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/google-outsources-brainstorming-to-users-goog
outsource brainstorming to your users. Google's launched a new
http://googleproductideas.blogspot.com/ Google Product Ideas blog as
well as a  http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=cf Product Ideas for
Google Mobile site where users can submit feature and product ideas
and vote on others. So what's in it for you if you come up with Google's
next billion-dollar-idea? 'If you post an idea or suggestion and we put
it into action, we
http://www.google.com/support/faqs/bin/topic.py?topic=16943
may give you a shout out on our Product Ideas blog,' explains Google,
'but we won't be compensating users for their ideas.' Lucky thing
http://investor.google.com/conduct.html don't-be-evil Googlers don't
have to live up to the IEEE Code of Ethics, or they might have to
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/iportals/aboutus/ethics/code.html
credit properly the contributions of others." So what's wrong with a 
shout out among consenting adults?

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