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Re: Interview with Guido van Rossum about Google App Engine
From: jf <jf () danglingpointers net>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 03:51:39 +0000 (UTC)
When I found out the interview was getting piped through google pr, my interest in participating dropped. It's too bad because it probably could've been an interesting dialogue. I don't fault either Crag or Guido for this, its just the nature of the beast (and a sad testament to the way things have become). That said, it is my understanding that the google guys who saw my talk @ esw were initially there to attack me, this is based off of second hand knowledge, but none of the people who told me they were going around bragging before my talk about what they were going to do have given me any reason to disbelieve them. That said, it didn't actually occur, the only person from Google who spoke to me was Chris Evans, who was very nice and polite. I'm not sure if this was encouraged by their employer or not, but it certainly further damaged my opinion of the company. If anyone wants to approach the subject without their corporate sponsorship, I would be more than happy to discuss so long as it is an honest dialogue that isn't just another attempt at sales/marketing/et cetera. On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Alexander Sotirov wrote:
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:58:16 -0700 From: Alexander Sotirov <alex () sotirov net> To: dailydave () lists immunitysec com Subject: Re: [Dailydave] Interview with Guido van Rossum about Google App Engine On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:31:09AM +0200, Craig Balding wrote:After seeing Justin Ferguson present on flaws in interpreted language runtimes [http://eusecwest.com/esw08/esw08-ferguson.ppt] at eusecwest, I approached Guido for an interview about App Engine / Python / Security.The entire interview can be summarized as "Sorry, we cannot divulge any information about what we did to secure App Engine, but we did stuff. Trust us." This is the worst kind of PR talk and I'm really disappointed that it's coming from somebody who is actually capable of discussing the real technical issues. Alex
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