[phaemon]

No one's saying the bug is Google's fault, they're saying that taking advantage of the bug is Google's fault, because it is.

People are annoyed about it because it's stealing from the rest of us who do pay our taxes.

[waqf]

If you genuinely think there's an unfair advantage here, buy some GOOG stock. Then you'll be on the receiving end!

[phaemon]

If I genuinely think someone's stealing, I should buy stolen goods to take advantage of the situation?

That's an interesting moral viewpoint!

[patrickaljord]

Getting to keep your own money is stealing now? How Orwellian .

[phaemon]

Keeping your money when you owe it for a service is, yes. It's called "theft of services".

EDIT: Perhaps I should put it more clearly...

If you sell goods on Google Play, I believe there is a fee of 30%. Now, imagine I found a bug in the Google Play store that meant that, even though I sold millions of copies of my app, I actually paid 0% to the Play Store. Do you think that Google would just accept that I'd found a bug in their software and therefore I owed them nothing? Do you think I owe them nothing?

Google chose to participate in a market where the costs were clearly labelled up-front and they didn't even have to pay a penny unless they made a significant profit!

Why the hell should they get away with paying nothing for a service that other people pay a lot of money for?

[waqf]

I suppose you're the kind of person who sends extra money to the Revenue if you feel your tax bill was unfairly low?