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They clearly do know that random things behave differently depending on /bin/sh - because their script changes it to avoid their product behaving differently.

> When Eric Schmidt wrote that quote, it was defending an ill-fated and misguided attempt to force real names

He said this 18 months before the real names policy, and he actually said it as a warning to users.

The full context of that Schmidt quote was that he was warning people that whatever they do, the government has legal (or as it turned out, extra-legal) ways to find out.

"the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we’re all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."

That seems like a good warning, hardly evidence of some nefarious bias.

In fact, Uber is. They have a research center in Pittsburgh, which has plenty of weather and terrible roads. Cars are seen regularly dodging students around CMU.