nothing at all more power to them. I hate the idea that many people seem to have that just because they use open source or offer something for free they are some benevolent company so it's nothing against google just against a perception.

Sadly all the big boys seem to sue each other over many different topics its easy enough to search the terms "microsoft sues""google sues" "Apple sues" etc... I do believe M$ has offered many good innovations in products. to me their problem in this are is that the company on the whole does not have a culture of innovation.

I just don't understand why people think Google is this benevolent company trying to bring happiness and rainbows to anything. Everything they produce, free or not open source or not, has the goal of making a profit for their shareholders. If you really think about it they are following a M$ model anyway. They offer a mix of free and pay services. Why use them, because they play really really well with each other as opposed to buying many different vendor products that while they do the same thing require more time and effort to work together. Sounds a lot like the M$ server lines.

Much like Cisco and all other big players. Its just the way of the world. Fight for change if you want I wish anyone who does so luck.