Google is the admin and tech owner on the domain, so regardless of how they’ve set up the foundation, OpenSocial is still a Google entity and its influence can’t be underestimated.

I have no axe to grind with Google and use many of their services. In fact I feel there’s no problem using Google for business services at all.

However, maybe for more transparency maybe the foundation itself should own the domain and Google should have a board made up completely of non-Google folks.

It’s a great concept, I just think it could be set up better.

In response to:
“Opensocial is a great concept and Google isn’t going anywhere in the near future, but I’m not sure we want a completely commercial (and obscenely dominant) entity holding the keys and protocol for how a large part of the web might work together.”

Did you see the OpenSocial Foundation? Google doesn’t solely hold the keys for OpenSocial. http://www.opensocial.org/opensocial-foundation