Love this bit.
@last, the original Sketchup was a for profit company that sold their software, Google bought the company and released it for free because they wanted people to work for them for nothing and populate google earth with their hard work. When they found this didn’t work they basically stopped development and fortunately sold it to Trimble, a for profit company.
So lets not worship google as some sort of omniscient benevolent company that was giving away the product out of the goodness of it’s heart, nor demonize Trimble for trying to make it a viable business product again.