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So because Verizon donates more to hurricane victims, that makes Google evil? The rest of your claims are unsourced.

• ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  Your defense of Google hinges on them "giving back", including giving "tons of services for free", etc. You seem to equate charity as a key part of "goodness". My point is merely that donations are PR move, and Google's isn't even that impressive considering their peers. (Especially when you consider that today Michael Dell offered up $36 million... and Google is still in that $1 million range.) http://paxlicense.org/ http://paxlicense.org/ is a great example of how Google uses patents as a latent threat. It's "open to anyone", but requires you be shipping Google's proprietary malware on your Android devices to qualify. You might also note that things like Samsung moving closer to stock Android was coupled with the announcement of a Google patent agreement. While Google's terms with different companies are strictly confidential as part of the terms (Microsoft's patent extortion only became public because some parties refused to pay), they operate very much in the same space.