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Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs
You've missed the point that Google has always been an advertisement company.
wpietri
on Sept 10, 2013
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I'm aware of that. But they also came out of an academic background, used a lot of open source, published many papers, and built an engineering-focused culture, not a business-focused one.
That is, sadly, changing. But it's not a necessary change.
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