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@aral It's a small thing, but it caught my attention that this is under the repo of an individual contributor, not an "official" google account.

Shameful? I think so.

@chrisg Yeah, they probably want it to look more grassroots or some other optics bs. Four Googlers on the authors; entirely aligned with Google’s business model, something tells me this isn’t a personal project :)

PS. My favourite issue so far: github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-

GitHubFeature request: dismantle google · Issue #103 · RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-IntegrityBy swolford

@aral @chrisg heads up that in standards circles this is pretty average behavior (repos starting at the contributor level) for a bunch of reasons: it usually moves into a standards org quickly, it's hard to put things public on org accounts for legal reasons, & engineers often are judged on public github activity during job searches.

@Chronotope

Yeah, ok, that's probably true. It's a small part of the whole story anyway, but it's fair to point out that it isn't necessarily nefarious.

@aral