Is Google Faking the Open Source Funk?

“It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last that Google’s
been knocked about its policies regarding openness of certain
technologies or strategies — policies, by the way, that certain
other companies (like Microsoft!) would be blasted for
straightaway.

“In basketball we had the Jordan Rules, which initially was a
term used to describe the strategy some teams applied to
aggressively and physically guard Michael Jordan. But later it
became what people called the preferential treatment the superstar
received from refs who swallowed their whistles whenever Jordan
traveled or fouled someone — especially late in close games. In
football we have the Brady Rule, which was enacted this season to
protect quarterbacks’ knees after superstar QB Tom Brady went down
for most of last season following a hit to his knee (and,
unfortunately, applied in a tight game against my Ravens). And in
tech we seem to have the Google Rules, where Google just seems to
get pass after pass for stuff others would be called on.”

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