On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Danese Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> evil anymore (just as very few of us believe that Google isn't evil...sorry
> Charles).  Publicly traded US Corporations are inherently evil...all of them
> are...because by design they exist to pursue profit over all else.

I can understand why you say that, and I'm not going to try to
convince you otherwise. Still, having been at a lot of big (and small)
public companies (DEC, Apple, Xerox) and now at Google for a while I
can say that while I agree with you in general, I disagree with you in
the specific case of Google. That may well change over time as Google
gets bigger. The idealism may get diluted or even lost, but at least
for now *I* feel that Google is trying to not be evil, even sometimes
to the detriment  of short  term profits.

-- Charles

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