An Experiment in Scotch

Do No Evil (unless we can make lots of money doing evil). Cur­rently, the zeit­geist in com­puter mak­ers is that they, not those of us that buy the damn things, own the com­puter. It comes loaded with crap designed to either steer you down a direc­tion you don’t need (Hello AOL!) or designed to be bor­der­line spy­ware like the Google stuff above.

You can’t buy a car that dri­ves you to a Shell sta­tion when you need gas and you shouldn’t be able to buy a com­puter from Dell that directs you to ad pages by Google. When you buy a prod­uct, it’s yours and you should have all the power in mak­ing deci­sions regard­ing that prod­uct. Google has lost its way as it got huge just like all other “Do No Evil” com­pa­nies before it. Google isn’t spe­cial and it doesn’t look like it ever was, regard­less of the lofty mot­toes and inten­tions of its founders.

More over­reach can be found here where Google basi­cally admits to want­ing to store your per­sonal infor­ma­tion so they can bet­ter orga­nize your life.  I’ve got news for Google, this cen­tral­iza­tion of power infor­ma­tion scares those of us who think decen­tral­iza­tion of most every­thing is the way to go.  You may use it for good now but his­tory teaches some­one always comes along to use it for some­thing bad.