<story><title>Saying Goodbye to Louisville</title><url>https://fiber.googleblog.com/2019/02/louisville_7.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&amp;quot;For that, and many other reasons, we are deeply grateful to Mayor Greg Fischer, the City of Louisville and its residents for their partnership and spirit of innovation over the past two years.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why we can&amp;#x27;t trust Google with anything critical. They view the world as an experiment they can quit anytime. Definitely don&amp;#x27;t buy a Google self driving car or anything else you expect to work in a few years.&lt;p&gt;There is a good chance that businesses moved to Louisville because of Google Fiber and they are being shown the finger &amp;quot;Thanks for indulging us, we got what we wanted and you can go f... yourself&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WaltPurvis</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;There is a good chance that businesses moved to Louisville because of Google Fiber&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It would be astonishing if the total number of businesses for which that&amp;#x27;s true is more than two. I can&amp;#x27;t imagine what sort of company would base a decision to move to Louisville on the availability of a Google Fiber Internet connection, nor can I imagine how the loss of Google Fiber would be any kind of serious problem (there &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; other ways to connect to the Internet in Louisville).</text></comment>
<story><title>Saying Goodbye to Louisville</title><url>https://fiber.googleblog.com/2019/02/louisville_7.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>&amp;quot;For that, and many other reasons, we are deeply grateful to Mayor Greg Fischer, the City of Louisville and its residents for their partnership and spirit of innovation over the past two years.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s why we can&amp;#x27;t trust Google with anything critical. They view the world as an experiment they can quit anytime. Definitely don&amp;#x27;t buy a Google self driving car or anything else you expect to work in a few years.&lt;p&gt;There is a good chance that businesses moved to Louisville because of Google Fiber and they are being shown the finger &amp;quot;Thanks for indulging us, we got what we wanted and you can go f... yourself&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dopamean</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure I can cosign the cynicism toward google in the particular instance. I am a Fiber customer in Austin and I&amp;#x27;ve always been under the impression that this essentially an experiment and that it likely wont be around forever. Perhaps that is not a widely held enough believe however.</text></comment>