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> So two options remain: more open, more closed.

All kinds of changes are possible that would not, in net, be more open or more closed, either because there primary change would not be about openness, or because it would be more open in some ways and less in others.

So, no, there are more than two options.

>>dragon+(OP)
It's hard to imagine more closed. They have opened only "whisper" and old stuff. Neither is a problem from moral standpoint. Whisper 'helps people' and is very in line with the 'mission'. One thing they can do is end MS exclusivity. Google would like it. At the same time opening too much would mean giving access to 'unfriendly' governments.