Comments on: Feedburner evil? Dave Winer warns of a scenario http://podtech.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/feedburner-evil-dave-winer-warns-of-a-scenario/ Opinion from Silicon Valley Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:57:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ian Betteridge http://podtech.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/feedburner-evil-dave-winer-warns-of-a-scenario/#comment-39735 Ian Betteridge Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:57:01 +0000 http://podtech.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/feedburner-evil-dave-winer-warns-of-a-scenario/#comment-39735 Google could do that... and watch as the majority of its Feedburner and Google Reader customers instantly migrated over to another platform. In other words, there is no danger. Dave has no argument about *why* Google would ever do such a thing, or *how* it would enforce its lock-in. There is no reason for them to ever do it, and there is no technical method of stopping people just jumping ship if they did. Google is many things, but suicidal isn't one of them. Google could do that… and watch as the majority of its Feedburner and Google Reader customers instantly migrated over to another platform.

In other words, there is no danger. Dave has no argument about *why* Google would ever do such a thing, or *how* it would enforce its lock-in. There is no reason for them to ever do it, and there is no technical method of stopping people just jumping ship if they did.

Google is many things, but suicidal isn’t one of them.

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