Hacker News Reader

It's kind of a shame that Google doesn't release all this data they have collected/created as open data.

That's like McDonalds giving away food. Or Ford giving away cars. Google's business quite literally is data.

Sure, but Google does claim to be an open company, and giving things back.

Among other things, they open sourced the Ceres library, which the imaging pipeline relies on.

> McDonalds giving away food.

Not the best example. McDonalds is so much more than food: