> Companies exist to provide a service to society. In the process they > make money.
No they dont. Name one company which exist only to serve society and i shall show you a failed company! > > Given that they exist to provide a service to society, no they don't sir. > Ofcourse there are any number of crooked companies and people whose > sole ethic is to make money. I dont understand why is making money so bad?? As i see it we all work hard so that we can gain money to provide for more comforts. What is wrong in doing so? Am no MS supporter but they have gone a long way to make money, they made the desktop ubiquitous. They marketed their product so well that more and more people wanted to buy it, this helped in bringing down prices. Enough for us to sit and argue over in on our own personal computers. Now they did this for money not to fulfill any philanthropic urge. Successful companies have great ethics. They provide and satisfy a particular need. I don't see why we should bash MS just for making money. If they had monopolistic practices its because the competition wasnt good enough and allowed it to be a monopoly. If MS used its monopoly status to make more money then its because they ensured nobody else could provide better. Successful companies are successful because they provide something which others cannot. >they exist to make money - they make it by providing a service to society. >Some companies realise that it is good business to be ethical - others dont. >But people invest in companies to make money - not to promote ethics. Well Said! SG -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
