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Google will donate to whatever terrible person will further their interest and we only care because they pretended to not be evil a decade a go.

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Google's "don't be evil" clearly meant "don't become Microsoft." It was never a call for general moral betterment.

>Google's "don't be evil" clearly meant "don't become Microsoft."

yeah, and look and what a good job they're doing -- user-agent discrimination like the good old IE days, and talk of ongoing anti-trust probes.

If they do the same thing Microsoft did, but get away with it, they've clearly not become Microsoft.

They are doing pretty well imho. They offer the world a massively popular open source mobile operating system, a massively popular open source browser, they seriously pushed user security with influence over practices, software, and Project Zero, and all their services work well with on my Linux systems.

Yes, the monopoly and censorship stuff is very worrisome but on the tech side they are undeniably better than Microsoft.

It was about being trustworthy with people’s information.

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