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Its funny how giant douchebags who are trying to "mitigate their risks" never seem to perceive the risk of everyone realizing they are giant douchebags. For th

Its funny how giant douchebags who are trying to "mitigate their risks" never seem to perceive the risk of everyone realizing they are giant douchebags. For those who don't know the history of the EFF, it is detailed in Bruce Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown" which is available here http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html and on Amazon. The guy behind Lotus 1-2-3, Mitch Kapor, spent a sizable portion of his spreadsheet fortune setting it up. The events that Kapor and other founders were responding to make quite the riveting tale.

qbrass 9y ago
>Its funny how giant douchebags who are trying to "mitigate their risks" never seem to perceive the risk of everyone realizing they are giant douchebags. The market doesn't really care if you're a giant douchebag so it doesn't matter to them if everyone finds out.
- multi_tude 9y ago
  Douchebag-driven PR disasters aren't good for biz.
  - phamilton 9y ago
    Exhibit A: Uber
    - TeMPOraL 9y ago
      That's a great exhibit you can be a total douche company fucking over everyone, and as long as you don't hit a socially superhot topic (e.g. sexual harassment), it won't affect you negatively in any way.
- threepipeproblm 9y ago
  I mean you obviously have a point, since Zillow exists despite doing what they do. On the other hand, my parents are buying and selling a house right now and I just encouraged my mom to switch to Redfin based on recommendations in this post. As long as there are people who care about this kind of thing it will have some impact.