This doesn't sound like the Google of old, at least one of it's owners would never hire evil on his own. On the other hand, if faced with Microsoft's long record of dirty tricks that I know of first hand living in San Diego where MS stole Stacker's double-store disk space saving technolog. Later foreced to pay for it by the courts that would never have happened had not other smaller companies like Symantic helped pay Stacker legal bills.
The point being, MS is such a power house, Google would be safer simply having evil on it's payroll even if they didn't indulge in dirty tricks.
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This doesn't sound like the Google of old, at least one of it's owners would never hire evil on his own. On the other hand, if faced with Microsoft's long record of dirty tricks that I know of first hand living in San Diego where MS stole Stacker's double-store disk space saving technolog. Later foreced to pay for it by the courts that would never have happened had not other smaller companies like Symantic helped pay Stacker legal bills. The point being, MS is such a power house, Google would be safer simply having evil on it's payroll even if they didn't indulge in dirty tricks.