I don't understand what you don't get, this is how google works. Google does things like that constantly: buying popular softwares to kill them, make services

I don't understand what you don't get, this is how google works. Google does things like that constantly: buying popular softwares to kill them, make services such as google reader and kill them, etc. Google has its own agenda and making an open and distributed internet that respect people privacy or wishes is not part of it.