* Peter Corlett <[email protected]> [2008-09-22 18:40]: > Did anybody seriously think that Apple would be any > different once they got their feet under the table?
I am continuously puzzled that people attribute human characteristics to legal constructs like corporations. F.ex. I am completely convinced that very nearly every single Google employee takes privacy issues to heart, and that even the upper echelon in the company wants to do the right thing. But the fact that I would trust personal data to any one person at Google does nothing to convince me to trust Google with my personal data. Likewise it's silly to use terms like employee loyalty or such because a corporation has no loyalties which is because it's not a human. These things are true of any group entity once you move up the scale past ten or so people. Where groups differ is in their cultures; that is highly dependent on the personalities of the founding members. Microsoft was particularly bad because at least two of its founders are unapologetically blatant about their predatory ambitions to the extent of using illegal means to their ends. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be predatory within legal bounds (which is what Apple gets much of its bad press for) or that someone won’t be tempted to see how far they can bend the law when no one is looking (see Google and tax manipulation). But anyway, this is rather far removed from software and the hating thereof. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
