I really enjoyed the RMS comment also; whoever wrote that wins the daily snark award. That being said, yeah, a lot of Google's paid developer facing tools are

I really enjoyed the RMS comment also; whoever wrote that wins the daily snark award. That being said, yeah, a lot of Google's paid developer facing tools are actually quite terrible (like their Youtube api/v3 - not the iframe one, the supposed restful data one). Which is strange because their open source stuff tend to be pretty good. So it's like giving Google money actually makes things worse. Especially with using their APIs, it's often felt like I'm paying Google to punch me in the face rather than actually provide better service.