Don't be evil, 2009 edition: "Remove the search engine setting. Hard-code the search engine to Google" https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/GlobalSearch/ …pic.twitter.com/nLIvwkwnp6
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As a mere lay person, I don't understand why the openness is the problem? Didn't MS get in trouble without being open? It seems to me that things like preventing DDG/Bing from being used are the problem; one could have an open platform that doesn't do the shady stuff Google doespic.twitter.com/uKlCFuUYvA
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Further down in the screenshotted thread, the Google person quoted above claims that the open-source nature is purely due to altruism. He says "I was there" and ofc. no one in the thread can claim to have been there, but no one seems to buy it.
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IMO, a lot of the events at the time (e.g., pushing an anonymous commit that hard codes the search engine to Google) make altruism seem like an incomplete explanation at best, but ofc. I wasn't there so what do I know?
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