You used to not be able to contribute to most GNU projects (maybe you still can't) without assigning copyright ownership to the FSF.
I don't see what practical difference the assignment to Google will make. Without using the words "equality", "between equals" and "sharecropper", can you give an example of something you or I will not be able to do with the code that you or I would have been able to do if the copyright had remained with the contributors?
You used to not be able to contribute to most GNU projects (maybe you still can't) without assigning copyright ownership to the FSF.
I don't see what practical difference the assignment to Google will make. Without using the words "equality", "between equals" and "sharecropper", can you give an example of something you or I will not be able to do with the code that you or I would have been able to do if the copyright had remained with the contributors?