Doctorow: Rivalry Keeps Google From Doing Evil

An anonymous reader writes "Writer and activist Cory Doctorow says competition keeps Google behaving ethically because it believes there are benefits to be had. However, as it moves into sectors where it faces fewer rivals this may not always be the case. 'It actually seems to be a quality metric. They believe they can attract customers, independent software vendors, resellers and an ecosystem around them by not being evil,' he says. 'Where they operate in narrower, less competitive markets — like where they’ve become an Internet service provider, for example — they abandon those commitments.'"

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Re:Monopoly

[Anonymous Coward]

Google... gets a free pass from lots of people.

Google, the Obama of the internet.

Microsoft is the 'Bush'. They get blamed for everything that goes wrong

Apple is a mix of Gore, Nader, and Perot on camera... Behind the scenes they are Kissinger and Rumsfeld.