Peridyd's Progress

It's stories like this one that well nigh compel geeks to love Google. Mind you, Google's a business, and it's going to make problematic decisions because its bottom line is always going to be the bottom line.

Yet there's something refreshingly honest about letting your customers walk away from your service with their data. (It's also more than a little arrogant too, isn't it?) I mean, can you imagine Microsoft moving to open standards to allow their customers to migrate away from the .doc file format if they weren't satisfied with the latest Office product? Nope. Me neither.

Google's got a hacker mentality, and that's a good thing.

Thanks to ESR (you conservative libertarian dog you) for keeping the Jargon File online so I could get a reliable definition for Hack.