Daniel Giersch is one name that the Google behemoth will not soon forget. Giersch, who founded a same-day mail service to compete with Deutsche Post, has been battling for the right to the GMail name since 2004. This week he emerged victorious. According to The Register, Giersch was not enticed by the $250,000 offer from Google for the trademark rights and he called Google’s efforts “very threatening, very aggressive and very unfaithful”.
Say wha? Didn’t he know that Google was the “good guys”?
Apparently, Google is starting to feel a ceiling where once there were no boundaries. Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin has admitted that caving to pressures from countries such as China have compromised the principles of “Don’t Be Evil”. Reports have surfaced that Chinese authorities have used information provided by Yahoo to convict a journalist. That’s some stink that Google definitely does not want to step in because the repercussions are sure to linger.