Why respecting a company that does not respect our freedom?
As for SaaS it is somewhat worse than proprietary software where the user at least receives a binary (not of much help but better than nothing). Not talking about the privacy issue of sending our data to a third party.
You seem to be concerned about Google's revenues (I am not) and considers that "guaranteeing income" necessarily is good (it is not: robbing, developing proprietary software, etc. are paths to make money in an unethical way). The free software movement is concerned about social and ethical issues (that I believe far more important) and has better economical/political fallouts: local jobs in the small support companies vs. mega-corporation abusing from their political power.
The Linux Foundation does not deal with Free software but with open source. Its goal basically is Linux (the kernel) world domination. There is nothing subversive there.
