Just like you argue that the "old guard" are fighting to keep the status quo of how they make money, Google is fighting to make the competitive landscape favor its business model. Neither are evil or good. It's just business.
Calling Google's landscape as favoring innovation is just sugar coating it. At the end of the day Google does not like anything that may disrupt its business; the Wired article is a great example: Google did all it can to stop MS from buying out Yahoo! and succeeded only to find out later that the war was never about Yahoo!.
There is a lot of "wrong" things about Google just as there are a lot of "wrong" things with MS and the "old guard". So please, put down that Google Kool Aid (beta) cup and see the world for what it is: hard nosed business as usual. Google is no angel and it shouldn't be.
Calling Google's landscape as favoring innovation is just sugar coating it. At the end of the day Google does not like anything that may disrupt its business; the Wired article is a great example: Google did all it can to stop MS from buying out Yahoo! and succeeded only to find out later that the war was never about Yahoo!.
There is a lot of "wrong" things about Google just as there are a lot of "wrong" things with MS and the "old guard". So please, put down that Google Kool Aid (beta) cup and see the world for what it is: hard nosed business as usual. Google is no angel and it shouldn't be.