Have you actually observed the Go community and how Go has been developed over the last five years? What you are saying are fair concerns in the abstract, but I cannot reconcile them with the reality of how the Go project operates.
You also seem unusually hung up on its name. It's not like it's called Google Programming Language All Access.
I see from another comment that this release first happened, and then, afterward, the release was pushed to its “official” Git repository. This is not the way real open projects do releases, and instead indicates that the real development is done in-house and the code thrown over the wall.
A name is important, as it is a symbol. As long as the language is called “Go”, Google will always have power over it, no matter who actually does most of the work, and thus the fear will still be there. (Yes, “Go” is symbolically the same as “Google Programming Language All Access”. It’s as if Microsoft released something called “MSCode”.)
> I see from another comment that this release first happened, and then, afterward, the release was pushed to its “official” Git repository.
You misunderstand. The release was made from the official open source Mercurial repository, and later pushed to the official Git repository, because this release coincides with the project's migration from Mercurial to Git.
Every single change of this release was written in public, reviewed on public mailing lists, and committed to a public version control system. You are misinformed and spreading FUD. Please stop.
>This is not the way real open projects do releases, and instead indicates that the real development is done in-house and the code thrown over the wall
There are several projects that are free and open source, wildly available to every platform, hacked upon by hundreds of people, that still do cycle releases and development behind the back of most developers and only release full .tar.gz archives with sources after a milestone is reached.
I might be wrong but iirc bash is one of those projects (or at least was), I seem to recall people complaining about it during the shellshock issue. The GNU libc might be another but I'm not sure.
You also seem unusually hung up on its name. It's not like it's called Google Programming Language All Access.