> In practice we'll only get a chance to find out who Go really belongs to if Go core team members start leaving Google and try to remain active in determining

> In practice we'll only get a chance to find out who Go really belongs to if Go core team members start leaving Google and try to remain active in determining Go's direction. If that works, especially if the majority of them no longer work for Google, then Go probably is their language, not Google's, in the same way that Python has always been Guido van Rossum's language regardless of who he worked for at the time. This is laughable. Anything built within Google belongs to Google. There's no way the company will let anyone from the core team leave and take the language with them. Keep in mind, Google's version of Go and the community might be vastly different, as the former has different needs versus the latter.