You mean, kind of like Android, Google Docs, etc? Google makes its money by charging for add-ons to those products (space on Google Drive, Play store for Androi

You mean, kind of like Android, Google Docs, etc? Google makes its money by charging for add-ons to those products (space on Google Drive, Play store for Android, etc), not from those products directly. I see no reason why Google would be hurt by open sourcing those products, yet they don't, and that choice leads to all sorts of issues from privacy-conscious individuals. I understand not open sourcing their secret sauce (e.g. search algorithms), but they have a ton of other products that could absolutely be open source without any negative financial impact. It's things like this that make me seriously doubt their commitment to open source.