> Splitting Google up, forcing this infrastructure to become open, etc would be much healthier than perpetually killing small products to protect Google's secret sauce.

There are probably many Googlers here who have sacrificed huge portions of their life and time getting the Google infrastructure to work. Forcing engineers to make changes to their creation is insane.

Personally, I’d rather not build anything than have someone force me to break up what I’ve built because I was too successful at building it.

I think we should all agree to just keep politics out of engineering. We build things because we like to, we should assume the same for Google engineers.