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Re:Google Fonts: more than a trillion served by DannyBee on Sunday December 01, 2013 @05:05PM (#6829606)
Certain people have certain authority to talk about certain things.

I set policy around open source and open source licensing. I can speak officially to open source issues for Google (though at least here, i'm not unless I specifically say I am)

This does not mean it's a cohesive whole however.

In particular, a small team Of 3-4 people in the middle of a random non-android product area is not going to have the android team breathing down their neck asking them to "not break down numbers" or whatever the parent thinks happened here.

Re:Google Fonts: more than a trillion served by gress on Sunday December 01, 2013 @11:34PM (#6831618)
Since executives such as Eric Schmidt are happy to quote numbers about Android or Google+ in opaque and misleading ways, it seems entirely reasonable to believe that some other teams within Google may act to preserve the general message out of esprit-de-corps, whether or not they have android team members breathing down their necks.