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> I prefer to support companies that have a moral backbone and criticize those who don't. What are some of the companies with a moral backbone that you support
by mschaef 9y ago
> I prefer to support companies that have a moral backbone and criticize those who don't.
What are some of the companies with a moral backbone that you support? I'm genuinely interested to see what that business model looks like in the real world.
My own take on Microsoft's historical success in the 80's and 90's is that it's a combination of producing a product people wanted at a time people wanted it (and lack of well formed competition). A state of the art PC in 1991 required separately purchasing an OS, GUI, memory manager, shell, file system utilities, browser, etc.
So... while you might argue that it was anticompetitive of Microsoft to bundle these together, there's never been a huge demand for the ability to buy them separately. (Even before Microsoft started bundling all these parts together, the system vendors like Gateway, Micron, and Zeos were doing the bundling for them.)
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago> What are some of the companies with a moral backbone that you support? I'm genuinely interested to see what that business model looks like in the real world. Out of software companies that survived, Autodesk for example. Most hardware companies - except printer vendors trying to patent/restrict availability of ink cartridges etc. Really, I think it's important to discriminate between fair and unfair business practices. Lumping everything together as "business is business" is harmful to the society especially in the long run.