A lot of third-party security related products (especially in the Authorization/Authentication/Access business) are still tied to Apache since it's been dominating the free-software space for such a long time.

Kindle Fire is not sold outside U.S
Kinda hard to see how it would destroy anything until Amazon decides to go global with it (which they probably never will).

Until then the Fire is just a niche product in the American market - not much global relevance.

Yeah, I know, they've been saying that since March.

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/03/coming-soon-to-google-apps-1-button-and.html?utm_source=entblog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGoogleEnterpriseBlog+(Official+Google+Enterprise+Blog)

So, great that everyone with free account will get these synergies from G+. Google's own customers (Domain Apps) still don't have Google+.

So, either create a free GMail account (and deal with the crap of having two Google accounts) or move your stuff somewhere else.

...and that's when production moves to Africa.

Thanks for everything Rob, slashdot has been immeasurably important for me for a big chunk of my professional life not to mention the fun it has provided outside work hours.
Really. You made the best page on the Internet.

From the Google press release:

We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding together in anti-competitive patent attacks on Android. The U.S. Department of Justice had to intervene in the results of one recent patent auction to âoeprotect competition and innovation in the open source software communityâ and it is currently looking into the results of the Nortel auction. Our acquisition of Motorola will increase competition by strengthening Googleâ(TM)s patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.

Motorola and Nokia are the two leading patent holders within mobile business, so this is potentially a very good opportunity for Google to use that portfolio as a litigation shield and helping to keep Android (litigation) free.

Whenever you're on the move, you don't have a connection.

Really?!?!
What kind of dark age do you live that don't have 3G mobile USB sticks?

...so maybe the article author should try to figure out just what "linux" or "linux community" means.

Because they certainly don't mean what he thinks they mean. And therefore his reasoning is flawed from the start.

Linux is just the kernel.

There is no monolithic "community" who can make up their collective hive-minds about OpenOffice vs whatever.

There's plenty of companies, pushing out dists - and some of them might have some sort of ambition to get their particular dist on someones desktop, but it's hardly representative for the entire "community" (which doesn't even exist).

Oh well look at that, yet another feature that Google Apps users will not be able to use.

It seems the best way to opt-out of new Google stuff is to become their customer - then you can't get on these things even if you wanted it.