Google is not there to "get a discussion going" - it's there to guide things towards its own interests, just like Verizon et al.
The point here is that Google is just another huge, evil(1) company among others like it, and that all its recent talk about openness is just PR-bullshit.
The point here is that Google is just another huge, evil(1) company among others like it, and that all its recent talk about openness is just PR-bullshit.
(1) Whatever your definition may be.