He is brilliant. He actually thought for himself and saw that what he was a part of was wrong and unconstitutional. Most people dont learn critical thought anymore. People that think for themselves are dangerous in organizations where thinking in the box is prized.

Look at it from a different perspective. Google gave up a project that was little value to them. It did prove and get many people, myself included, to use RSS. Do I like Feedly as much as Reader? No. Do I use it just as much as Reader? Yup. Destroying Reader suddenly created demand in a market that practically didn't exist the day before. Startups always worry about what will happen when one of the big boys decide to play in their yard. Well here is a case where one decided to go do something else and let everyone else get a chance to play. Shutting down Reader was a gain for a Google, a gain for alternate RSS developers and a gain for users.

"Imagine if the engineers that built our transportation systems, buildings, and other structures that we rely on, cheated through school and on the engineering licensing exams? Imagine if our doctors cheated their way through school? Cheating may be the easy way out of a test or class, but it is very detrimental to the cheater in the long run, even if the cheater never gets caught. And, in some extreme cases, cheaters may cost other people money, or even lives." Look part of the problem is that all of those people cheated at some time. I've cheated and I would say most of the people I know have cheated. The thing is I haven't cheated in every class or even in more than a few classes. I'm a senior majoring in economics at a fairly top placed university so I've been going through the system for a while. The thing everyone realizes is that there is no way to cheat through every class, or even a reason to cheat through every class. You can be a great chem student and still want to get an easy A by cheating in a Am Hist class. I know more than a few people (non-majors) that cheated through an intro econ class but are good students in their fields. Is it fair to me as someone that likes econ to have cheaters in intro econ classes, probably not. Is it fair for english majors to have to take an econ class with someone who naturally excels at economics, probably not. They cheat and get an A and go on to write poems and think about butterflies or whatever english majors do, and I work hard and get an A and go on to fun things like GDP and inflation. We all win. I understand cheating in GE courses, cheating in upper div coursework is weird to me considering you should enjoy what you are studying and should really have to cheat. If my doctor cheated and didnt actually write that paper in 8th grade on Burma I'm not going to try and take away his medical license. And if that structural engineer wrote on his hand that monetary policy = federal reserve fiscal policy = congress, I'm pretty sure I'll still drive across her bridge.