[forgottenpass]

I jumped into this thread just to answer your question, I don't have a personal objection to how Google approaches open source. You can be as private as you want or have whatever project governance you want.

I posted because I find it alternatingly funny and frustrating that Googlers don't understand (or can't publicly admit) what Google is to the outside. I'm willing to believe that your comment is your own words. The problem is that you might as well have copy/pasted it from a social media playbook.

It's Google's prerogative to run the business however they want. But you pretend not to be a black hole. All companies are black holes, and that's fine. It's the dishonesty in external posturing that gets to me. Sometimes it's acting like a given opensource development process is more externally accessible or transparent than it is. Other times it's pretending like the youtube appeals process isn't a fake website to con the dumb people. Everyone knows the real appeals process is to work your professional contacts until you find someone who can reach out to a real human in google to check if they should over-ride the automated system (and/or the hourly drones that DGAF about doing their jobs well). -- That was weird tangent, but it's the thing least tied to software development process I could think of.

I know you can't admit it outloud on Hacker News, but I hope you would have had a different response if we had this conversation at a bar rather than in front of everyone like this. As long as you can admit that to yourself, privately, you're alright with me.