If Google did get split up, maybe the baby Googles could keep their open culture? Update: I realize that this comment appears sarcastic and ill-meaning, but th

If Google did get split up, maybe the baby Googles could keep their open culture? Update: I realize that this comment appears sarcastic and ill-meaning, but the top ranked post on HN is about " Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection" as of this moment (Friday, August 23, 2019 2:25 PM PDT) [0]. If we take the following together: 1. the open culture at Google as a known good quantity for some of the people who like to work there and keep working there 2. each of the products and services that Google offers today as respective known good quantities 3. The aggregate of Google's influence with respect to how the products and services in 2. sometimes has negative impacts on the marketplace. 4. The size of Google causes the open culture in 1. to start being a hindrance to Google itself. Then it seems obvious to me that the size and breadth of Google is the problem. I genuinely mean all of this in good-faith. If Google stayed small, then maybe services like Google Reader could still be around because the gap between cost and benefit would not have been as wide. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20779964