Not only are the founders sticking to a $1 salary (preferring to receive their cash from stock options and grants of the companies ever fluctuating stock)...but they've also thumbed their nose at the Big Brother type government that insisted on seeing their client records...whereas Microsoft crumpled to governmental whims like the kid with the runny nose that eats paste.

Google has done the right thing to resist the federal government's demand for Internet records. Somebody had to challenge this latest demand for private information. Microsoft could have done it; Google did it.

In complying, Microsoft said the information had no personal identifiers and was therefore harmless. If you had typed "child porn" in the search engine, the government would see "child porn" but not you. But it does raise a problem. If the government found that a certain number of people had typed that in, it might want to know who they are.

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