Sterling Hughes:

"Google is a company, and an excellent company from what I can see. Sometimes they have clairvoyant ideas, such as using large clusters based on commodity hardware (which, btw, FAST has always done as well). I believe, however, the geek community has created Google as a Golden Calf, and no corporation can be good religion."

03/09/03 update: I much prefer this point of view than the mix of victimhood and paranoia coming from other places (say, people from a known Pyra competitor who feel sorry they weren't the ones acquired, or at least that's how it looks to me).