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Even if there aren't, it makes sense to clarify to media that this is an open source project made without any business commitments. I've seen other businesses do something similar; internally it reduces friction with the business admin when devs want to open source something.

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_without any business commitments_ - not to sound trite, but when is the last time Google stood by its commitments?

Google still sells ads, doesn't it?

Didn't they originally claim to never show ads in search given that it is in direct opposition to search results quality? Back in the days when Pagerank was hot.

That was in the original pagerank publications. Google had lots of other early attempts to make money that avoided advertising (like the search appliance [0]), but the firehose of money from ads dwarfed anything else they could ever find and that early Google didn't last long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

Was that a "business commitment" or a "user commitment"?

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