I get why they do it, they are a business. I just wish Google would get off their ivory tower and build in the open more like they used to (did they? maybe I'm misremembering...).

They've acquired this bad habit of keeping all their scientific experiments closed by default and just publishing press releases. I wish it was open-source by default and closed just when there's a good reason.

Don't get me wrong, I suppose this is more of a compliment. I really like what they are doing and I wish we could all participate in these advances.