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Open source is great and new things are great and pursuing your passion is great. The rhetoric here however is lacking. Specifically the argument is "google money bad" but the authors don't provide specific examples where google money has caused a technical decision they disagree with.

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> No "default search deals", crypto tokens, or other forms of user monetization, ever.

Is avoiding those sorts of things not supposed to be reason enough for them?

Also the page does a good job of specifically mentioning Google and making general statements about what any source of funding can impact. If Google wanted to give an unrestricted donation it's not clear from this page they would decline it.

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