Google says there's no such thing as privacy
Oh, how things change.
The news that a Mozilla executive is exhorting computer users to adopt Microsoft's Bing search engine instead of Google would have caused hurricanes a few years ago. At the height of the DoJ anttrust action against Microsoft and subsequent case in the European Union, Microsoft was set up as the pantomime villain. It seems especially strange that is open source adherent Mozilla who has adopted this line. Quite honestly, if the answer is Microsoft, then it must have been a bloody stupid question.
There's nothing to suggest that Microsoft has radically changed - only this week, the company was forced to post code under the GPL general licence after it had previously been fingered passing open source code as its own - but Google certainly has. CEO Eric Schmidt's attitude to privacy is certainly not one that most people would be comfortable with.
