your piteous whining annoys me

[waider]

I can't really feel annoyed by the whole Google API flap. It's like, "oh jeez. they're not giving us our free milk and cookies any more. THEY'RE EVIL!" I mean, seriously. "But not nearly as evil as providing a powerful development tool to people who are loyal to Google and then discontinuing it without any warning or regard to their users (evilapi.com)" Loyal to Google? How about using Google soley because they've got the best damn search engine on the block, and if someone else came up with a better one people would drop Google in a heartbeat?

Hello, hands up who remembers Altavista?

(updated to add: I'm reminded by this of the Bill of No Rights.)