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> Just look at their litigation record.

I guess if one looks at those, it'll look like they won't sue you?

But my hypothetical case is what about if they do sue you, does this actually protect you, or not? Does a "pledge" have enough meaning that it could change the outcome in a court case?

Yes.

That doesn't mean things won't change in the future.

Their track record in other places has shown a significant decline (perhaps related to DoubleClick completing their reverse-acquisition of them).

That's my take on the death of don't be evil. Doubleclick was the worst kind of company and the merger with google seems to have diluted enough evil into google that google's immune system failed to kill it.