> Actually, Google Code was never trying to win.
> It was simply trying to prevent SF from becoming a shitty monoculture that hurt everyone
Being an insider of Google might make one be completely out-of-touch of reality. Google Video was trying to prevent Youtube from becoming a shitty monoculture that hurt everyone, too? This one clearly failed then.
Being a Google insider comes with the gift of being able to see the real rationales behind many products, and also the curse that nobody outside will believe you.
This is perhaps true of all big companies, but Google also seem to adopt a more passive PR strategy and don't try too hard to explain things, and it's just that much more difficult to understand Google when everyone else is louder.
different projects have different objectives? The guy literally worked on the project! There were 4 people at its peak! Why would you think that would be the source of a major initiative?
Though there probably is some deeper critique about how you have a pretty amazing service running with "just" 4 people and aren't able to turn that into something useful beyond that objective. Innovator's Dilemma I guess.
