On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > ashok _ [14/01/12 00:16 +0300]: > >> the unsaid part of the story is that such plagiarist business >> practices are quite common in Kenya ... there wouldnt be any hue and >> cry if it was another Kenyan company doing this to mocality. the >> outrage is coming from -- big fish vs small fish. might be a lease of >> life for these mocality people who sometime back closed down their >> operations in nigeria, uganda etc... > > > there'd probably be the same hue and cry but in a much less localized > audience than what you see here. >
perhaps yes, perhaps no. there is a similar example from sometime back -- there are different ISPs in nairobi all with their own fibre-optic backbones. its competitive, so one of the unsavory practices is to vandalize the other isp's fibreoptic cables (including the backup cables ). you would think this would raise a lot of complaints (yes, but only customers complaining of downtime). i attended a stakeholders meeting once and not one of the ISPs present wanted to even talk about this - because they were all doing it to each other. this ongoing practice is far more disruptive than some rogue google employees perjuring themselves, yet it doesnt the same kind of outrage locally.
