The Android developers seem to feel that they have been singled out for a level of criticism which few other embedded vendors — including those demonstrating much worse community behavior — have to deal with.
This is from Jonathan Corbet's coverage of the Collaboration Summit and matches my impression. I guess what some Google folks don't necessarily see is that they work for a company that has a big sign outside that effectively says “we are not Microsoft or Apple or Sony or the RIAA/MPAA” (implied: we're the good guys.) If you put up such a sign, and then disappoint people's expectations, you got to live with the consequences. (Google's marketing was once more successful with their recent actions in China. Get lots of good press coverage, get rid of quite a few critics, and pull out of a market where you didn't make big money in any case.)
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