To demonstrate the power and usefulness of Google App Engine, Darren Delaye, Braden Kowitz, and Kyle Consalus developed an excellent application called Huddle Chat, an open source and improved version of Campfire.<p>Unfortunately, the creators of Huddle Chat decided to take down the application based on allegations that it was copy of Campire. The decision came after 37signals, the company behind Ruby on Rails, and some Ruby developers complained. Of course, none of them complained when Basecamp copied Trac.<p>So, why would someone complain about something like that? Is this another Ruby vs Python silly fight? I don’t think so. This is because 37signal’s application, Campfire, runs on Amazon’s (AMZN) platform. And Google is competing against Amazon to develop the future Operating System for Web applications. And guess what, Google is winning.