[paulsutter]

Larry and Sergei retain voting control through a special class of stock, so no, they are not held hostage by anyone.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/dealbook/2012/04/13/new-shar...

[BurningFrog]

In other words, what Larry and Sergei care about is what the shareholders care about.

[TeMPOraL]

And this is a thing that reassures me Google won't turn actually evil any time soon.