I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder

I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder if all the folks outside of Google will remember to turn this off. If your motto is "ok, don't be evil didn't pay well", this is a genius move. Craft a language good enough to appeal to others, give it away, let a community grow, then hoover up data from everyone using anything written in our language. Unless, of course, they remember to opt out.