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Re:Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups by wj on Friday September 12, 2014 @12:05PM (#8308780)
The did offer Google Apps for Business for free for years to anybody who called themselves a business.

You can still use almost all of their services for your business (Drive, Apps, Gmail) for free. They'll even give you a free phone number and voicemail box.

I'd call all of that more than a small freebie.

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Re:Google Launches Cloud Platform for Startups by glimmung on Friday September 12, 2014 @12:40PM (#8308972)
Sure - and I've used many of those facilities (still am, in fact), and I appreciate them.

My intended point was really their miscommunication here - they exclude well over 99% of the organisations that consider themselves start-ups, and so the headline sets many up for disappointment. A better choice of wording would have sent a very different message.

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