[ivanfon]

Not a huge fan of Google getting more control over the net. On the bright side, Cloudflare getting a serious competitor is good.

[villedepommes]

Agreed. I just wish it wasn't Google. They "extinguished" a lot of good projects...

[killjoywashere]

Meh, I think they've grown up some and see what Amazon has done. Building infrastructure services for customers adds long-term revenue. BMW doesn't make you buy fuel injectors from someone else.

[deadbunny]

Name one product in GCP (that had reached general release) that they have "extinguished".

[villedepommes]

These immediately come to mind. I'm sure there's more if I dig deeper.

  * Theano -> TF
  * The multitude of RSS readers -> Google Reader
  * Severely undermined Firefox
  * Usenet newsgroups -> Google Groups

[8perezm]

Google custom search

[deadbunny]

Not part of GCP. Yes they have a history of shutting down free services but things in GCP don't get shut down, they are products, products people pay for.