Because Google owns the copyright to everything their employees make during their employment, whether or not they do it on company time or use company resources.
Because Google has killed every social play they've ever tried tbh. I can't get invested.
This isn't the same as the killedbygoogle complaint. I know they kill a lot because they try a lot but social is Google's Moby Dick. They'll jump on it and fuck it up if it takes off.
Fair disclosure I know it's distributed and as such I've got this link up my sleeve
I won't try to dispel this notion; I think your opinion is valid. I'll just say that in my experience Google is made up from a majority of people with good intentions :)
I'm interested in discussing how precisely Google could negatively affect the project -- I currently don't think that's possible, but I might be missing something.
The difference here is that this is not formally a Google project the way Wave, G+, etc were. This is just someone's hobby that incidentally Google owns the copyright to because tech companies treat engineers like glorified slaves when it comes to intellectual property.
Google kills social projects they run, but since they don't run this one, I don't see them interfering. Their ownership is just a technicality because of stone age IP law.
