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by ciphol 1640 days ago
Corporations, whether giant or not, create products which people chose to purchase because they are useful. That's creating value, not sucking value.

Sometimes a corporation can "suck value" by using anticompetitive behavior to prevent competitors from offering better/cheaper products to consumers. But in this case, Google is the big corporation, and contributions to OSM benefit smaller competitors at the expense of Google, creating more options and more value for consumers overall.