[roenxi]

People are trying to anthropomorphise companies and that isn't a sensible way to understand them. The list of people who have your interests at heart:

* You (some caveats).

* Maybe your family (lots of caveats).

As Stallman has been pointing out since the early 1990s, if you give up your freedom you won't be free any more, and other people can do stuff you don't like to you. People still refuse to use that logic despite its excellent predictive track record.

Google hasn't actually asked anyone to give up any freedom, so little meaningful damage is being done despite the fact that Google is going evil. The Microsoft era was much worse for the internet.

[josefx]

Let me get this straight, you cite Stallman on freedom and then claim that Google hasn't done anything wrong? Google the company that manages the webs most widely used DRM module? You are aware that Stallman and GNU explicitly oppose digital restrictions management in the context of freedom?

[dijit]

I think he's not as internally inconsistent as you claim.

"Doing things i don't like" would be locking me out of purchases I made or bricking my devices if I don't subscribe to some new service.

Google isn't doing this, you can use their products mostly for free and you're unlikely to rub up against the 900lbs gorilla that famously doesn't have support.

Until you do rub up against that gorilla; then you will start to cry about freedom, and retrospectively realise you kept trading it away.

(see also: if they change the rules, usability, cost of entry, etc;etc;etc)

[roenxi]

I don't understand what issue you are going to. I haven't installed Widevine.

I'm extremely disagreeable, most people do things I think are foolish/detrimental to the general good/philosophically bad. We all get along regardless. The idea that Google does something I don't like that doesn't affect me is not ideal, but is usual in all my relationships with any entity you care to name.

[dsabanin]

I think company can care about certain interests of yours, if you are aligned. That’s why you want to work for a good one. Companies are made out of people and at least some people there care.

[roenxi]

Every single atom in my leg could want to go left in its personal capacity as an atom, but they will still go right when my brain decides to go right.

These people aren't in control. What they care about isn't a major factor to be using in decision making. One of the core principles of western law, culture and corporate organisation is to centralise control in a tiny group with extreme amounts of skin in the game.

And those people almost always bend to the incentives they are put under. Sometimes it takes a little time.