Well, Google probably doesn’t control all the C++ standards committees. I don’t know how much control they have over commit rights to the Rust compiler. Given Mozilla’s client-patron relationship with Google, then I’d guess it’s possible.
But, yeah, a company whose business model is tricking old people into buying junk and surveilling their users probably shouldn’t be implicitly trusted.
Google employs a few people who have a commit bit, but they are handed out via consensus among the whole team, not by a single company or its employees.
Right, and at one point the whole team were all or mostly Mozilla employees (which, financially, is a client company of Google). So the core team is a group of Mozilla alumni and their friends. Unlike, say, C++ which is under diverse committees across multiple countries.
But, yeah, a company whose business model is tricking old people into buying junk and surveilling their users probably shouldn’t be implicitly trusted.