[mikece]

I imagine the various teams at Google see each other as competition more than we might realize. How many chat-like applications are there? How about the Java/Kotlin Android teams versus the Flutter team? All of the GPL die-hards looking at the non-GPL (MIT, BSD, and Apache2) Fuchsia project wondering just how committed Google is to the Linux kernel.

[skybrian]

Yes, different teams have different priorities, but there isn't direct competition between a performance-measuring tool and ad-serving.

In this case it's probably more the performance team wanting to do unbiased measurement. As they should.

[liveoneggs]

if google could gain a market advantage similar to the one they got from linux (for free) they would do so immediately no matter the "cost" to linux/OSS/the-world-at-large