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Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)Posted May 28, 2006 20:42 UTC (Sun) by XERC (guest, #14626)Parent article: Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot)
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Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 28, 2006 21:53 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] What's more, they should make it an open project. Volunteers can work on it, and Google does not need to invest $$ for the development, just for the maps. Of course this also means there won't be any spyware, ads or whatever that Google currently (if applies) relies on.
Google Releases Picasa for Linux (Slashdot) Posted May 28, 2006 23:13 UTC (Sun) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link] They do ads, but no spyware.
They probably can't free Picasa, due to not actually owning all of it.
Still, it's a loss-leader for them, they give it away to build goodwill essentially.
Frankly I think they would have been better off saving the money they spent on it, and just doing a windows port of digikam. They probably could have added any features it might lack much cheaper than going the route they have.
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