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CCTV cameras in people's homes would make them more accountable, and would likely also lead to frustration.

The goal is reasonable, but Google+ doesn't solve the problem.

There is nothing to reconcile. Google felt threatened by Facebook, and so quietly making the world a better place is a lower priority than what it perceives as self-defense.

'Google stands for ethics forever' You're putting blind faith in the behavior of a corporation. That sounds a lot like you've joined a religion.

No more than those who starte as fact that Google acted out of higher morality.

Only parts of Android are open source, and in any case it's a fundamentally commercial project conducted by giant corporations. What about it being partly open source has any beari…

All this means is that Occam's razor produces fallacies in cases where the evidence has been carefully removed.

People who have had a couple of decades of training starting as a child to conform will generally conform.

Because they'll lose good people to competitors and be forced to improve their behavior if they want to retain talent.

For those asserting that removing the canary would constitute disclosure: what about stopping the report altogether?

...and the hardware business, and the OS business, and e-commerce, and cloud services.

Google building more and more stuff directly into search has been going on since the early 2000s. Why are you uneasy now?

There are many googlers who sincerely support free software, but Google the company is a business that has no particular interest in preserving other businesses or even business mo…

Google is in the business of organizing the worlds information and monetizing it through advertising. If you are in the information business, Google is in competition with you.

Google/Motorola initiated a patent suit against Apple's use of push email in Germany. What did that have to do with anything Apple was doing?

That is not an answer to my question.

What do you expect Apple to do? These things are made open source under a permissive license. The whole point is that people can do what they want with the code.

Would you prefer that Google gains a monopoly in operating systems as well as search?

What I believe is that (as you have claimed) Android started as open, and is not any longer, but that many advocates of Android (Google included) continue to assert that it is. You…

This is absolutely disingenuous. Google routinely refers to 'Android activations', and the success of Android in public communications. This use is clearly not confined to carefull…

A little, but they are still regarded as 'better than the others' by those who for some reason desire that Google obtain a monopoly over search and the OS.

I don't agree with the parent poster's implication that 'because you work for Google you are a spokesperson' But.. You have certainly claimed to have authority to speak about parts…

I don't disagree with most of what you are saying except for the part about Google putting its own most significant parts of android into closed source components. Your comment abo…

Sure, but this isn't just the manufacturers working somehow against Google's goal to have android be truly open. Google is actively participating in this process rather than resist…