[mythtv-users] OT: Google - big brother? or I going mad?

Jeff Jensen jjensen at apache.org
Wed Sep 15 23:01:12 UTC 2010



On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:51:54 -0500
  "mike at grounded.net" <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
>>> But it makes me very uneasy to take advantage of all 
>>>these "free"
>>> services, anything "free" usually turns out to be worth
>>> the cost, or to actually cost   much more in the end.
>> 
>> Kinda funny reading that on a mailinglist meant for 
>>discussing a free
>> software product :)
> 
> Actually, he's got one heck of a point. I've been using 
>Linux since 1991 and open source projects in countless 
>networking setups.
> In networking, the costs saved are absolutely incredible 
>while on projects like this, simply buying something that 
>works right out of the box DOES save a TON of time and 
>money.
> 
> I don't even have a fully working box yet and I've 
>already spent enough that I could have bought a top of 
>the line purpose built box that would have been working 
>since day one. All I have to show at the moment is a lot 
>of money spent, an even larger amount of time spent and 
>still nothing fully working.
> 
> He's got a VERY good point :).

Of course, but Myth voluteers aren't snooping on my stuff 
(well, that I'm aware of anyways ;-).

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/15/124230/Google-Engineer-Spied-On-Teen-Users



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list