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"Don't be evil" ;-)

Is it still Google's motto?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

It’s a low bar and doesn’t fit with Googles actual mission.

Which is a lot lower than that.

How is making information accessible to everyone morally worse than being slightly better than evil?

They deprecated that years ago.

Gotta say, I preferred Google v1.0. The subsequent patches suck.

Android, Chromium and Kubernetes have come a long way. Plus there are a lot of other major open source projects that come out of Google. Way more than Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.

>Plus there are a lot of other major open source projects that come out of Google. Way more than Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.

Is it even true? MS does a lot of open source

Yes if you compare the code base size and the core components. Microsoft still hasn't open sourced it's main consumer operating system and neither has Apple.

Not a valid comparison since those are core products of both companies. Google hasn't and never will open source Search.

Android is one of Google's core products, as well as web (including Chromium).

chromium is open source because webkit (khtml) was open source

many useful parts of android are closed, and open source versions of most apps are languishing (calendar, contacts, dialer etc)

Have you checked out F-Droid lately, and how does this compare to Apple or Microsoft?

No they didn't. You shouldn't respond with confidence if you're just guessing.

It's listed in the code of conduct which is easily found online.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

The question as to whether one can commit evil and not be evil is a very interesting one for moral philosophy!

Was formally changed in 2015...

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