> But even thought they have NOTHING to gain sharing
This is wrong. They would have been ripped apart by people on the Internet if they switched to a proprietary protocol specific to Google for Google properties. Tech users brought the world to Chrome, tech users would just as quickly take them away if they pulled a Microsoft.
>Kubernettes is a perfect example.
K8s is not Borg. It was rewritten in open source. Xooglers could have started it just as easily without Google because the idea is very simple to spread.
>They give away Android to Amazon who uses on their Echo,
It's was open source when they got it and they capitalized on that in the marketing. They didn't "allow" amazon to do anything. They don't allow amazon access to the Google play store so they aren't exactly playing friendly.
>In return Google gets a ban for ALL companies being allowed to sell the competing Google products.
No, the ban is for not allowing native Google apps on Android users (a.k.a Fire phones) that don't pay the tax to Google. Tit-for-tat, which is petty, but tit-for-tat nonetheless.
> Not just Amazon will NOT sell as that is understandable but they will NOT allow anyone to sell them!
I bought a Chromecast at Walmart. Seems like Amazon is only preventing them from being listed in Amazon's marketplace.
>But then SPDY is changed and Google goes back and pays the expense of supporting the changes.
Every browser pays this. That's the Internet. Walled ecosystems with closed protocols die. Google chose the correct move by going open standards, there was no benevolence here.