If I were a shareholder, this sort of loose operations control would seriously worry me. I know that Google was at least partially built on letting creative people run off and do what interests them, but there also needs to be a decent level of oversight and guidance to ensure that employees don't inadvertently (or even intentionally) get themselves into legal troubles.

Which is exactly why Amazon is doing the same sort of analysis on your purchasing habits.

DAT? Where's that ZipDrive I was using as a doorstop...