[giulivo]

I think maximizing profit is what corporations do by definition. I agree with the poster something is changed at Gogle after Larry Page took over though.

Yet in the process of "making my opinion about a corp being evil or not" I enjoy measuring the amount and the quality of free software they release. For software corp, I think this is a good parameter.

By this metric it is easy to understand that putting too much hopes into Google is wrong. They release a lot of code, but that code is usually only "a path" for the user to their core products (which they do not release).

I encourage you rediscover those corps instead where people work hard to keep their "don't be evil" going, despite not marketing it that much.

Let me add something, maybe I'm not good enough for Google, but I'm employed by Red Hat and I enjoy what we do at Red Hat. And I could name a lot of others, in this context, doing great things.