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People seem to get surprised when Google acts like a for profit corporation... why? That's exactly what they are and have been for a very long time. I guess they have a good publicist. In reality, Google discourages competition in the browser, search engine, and email space by denying some of their many services (which you shouldn't depend on for open source software unless it has an open source license) and worse, blacklisting competitors. I've read posts from creators of search engines and email services on here that eventually were blacklisted by Google to squelch their growth.


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