[k4rthik]

I agree with Paul Graham on this one. "Has any other company grown to Google's size and remained as benevolent? (Not saying they're perfect, just the best that big.)" (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/495948643149426688) I'll stick with Chrome for now as I find it slightly better than firefox.

[stephenr]

We obviously have very different ideas about what “benevolent” means.

[pasiaj]

While I do agree, there have been many signs that times they are a changin'

[TeMPOraL]

Please enumerate at least some of those signs.

[BrandonM]

A different user replied with a very comprehensive list that is now inexplicably deleted. It included a story about Google using its leverage to oust location services competitor SkyHook: http://mobile.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook...

Edit: looks like they changed it to a top-level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8186125

[ulfw]

That's not a word that comes to mind when I think of Google+