Comment by rockskon
9 hours ago
Financial incentives, while a large motivator for companies, are frequently not the exclusive one.
Google for quite a few years was seen as a good steward of the free and open Internet.
To assert people shouldn't feel betrayed because "it's a company" fundamentally ignores why people had different expectations for Google to begin with.
When, 2001? By the time Chrome came out it had been clear that was not true for awhile.