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I feel it has been better that the more openly "bad" one of the two has acquired Github, because Google has this "don't be evil" face which is the fake one of i

by gkya 8y ago

I feel it has been better that the more openly "bad" one of the two has acquired Github, because Google has this "don't be evil" face which is the fake one of its two faces, though many still just fall in for it, forgetting it's just another company with commercial interests.

city41 8y ago
They are quietly dropping that image: https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393 https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
- koboll 8y ago
  It's a pretty stupid motto from a public relations perspective. It practically begs for ironic counterexamples.
  - vezycash 8y ago
    >It's a pretty stupid motto from a public relations perspective. Wait a minute. It was a great motto when Microsoft was clearly the enemy. It was a subtle Us versus Oracle, MS... The motto gave Google massive developer mindshare and support for android and anything Google. I've got no data to back this up - but I believe Google's key early employees may have joined the company partly because of this motto. However, with no clear enemy in sight. And with Google's privacy stance, the motto's begun to backfire. The last sentence from the book Animal farm fits perfectly >Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
- kyrra 8y ago
  Bad summary and bad headline. It is not removed. From the very last line of the CoC: > And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up! https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
  - danvayn 8y ago
    To be honest, when I read that I thought of James Damore and got a good laugh out of it.

by gkya 8y ago

city41 8y ago

They are quietly dropping that image: https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393 https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...

koboll 8y ago
It's a pretty stupid motto from a public relations perspective. It practically begs for ironic counterexamples.
- vezycash 8y ago
  >It's a pretty stupid motto from a public relations perspective. Wait a minute. It was a great motto when Microsoft was clearly the enemy. It was a subtle Us versus Oracle, MS... The motto gave Google massive developer mindshare and support for android and anything Google. I've got no data to back this up - but I believe Google's key early employees may have joined the company partly because of this motto. However, with no clear enemy in sight. And with Google's privacy stance, the motto's begun to backfire. The last sentence from the book Animal farm fits perfectly >Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
kyrra 8y ago
Bad summary and bad headline. It is not removed. From the very last line of the CoC: > And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up! https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
- danvayn 8y ago
  To be honest, when I read that I thought of James Damore and got a good laugh out of it.