[molmalo]

At the end: Or, worse, they'll assign blame to "rogue contractors" and say it was never their policy to do that. Right.

Now where have we heard that before? Rogue contractors?

I may be wrong, but... Is she implying that (in her personal opinion), Google knew and instructed them about OpenStreetMap sabotage? That's controversial at least.

Edit: I mean, I'm not defending anyone, but without proofs, I think that's a very harsh sentence.

[earl]

Not really.

Look at google + mocality: it's easy to understand why the contractors where doing what they were: it helped them sell something or hit quota.

Compare to Google contractors + open street map: what incentive does a contractor have to go screw up their data? In the first case I see directly why unethical people would do what they did. What exactly is the motive here? Just griefing? It makes me wonder.