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You can't have it both ways by using "don't be evil" as your mantra for a decade and then disregarding everything when it is no longer convenient.

• mc32 7y ago
  I think they really meant it. It was the antithesis to the Microsoft of the early aughts. But now they have other, broader goals to work for. Arguably they have become more borg-ish than MS of the 00's. But they’ve come to realize that at a certain point in size idealism doesn’t scale (coöperatives, hippie communes, etc) and others will eat your lunch if you encumber yourself with idealism (which can also go in the negative direction (when idealists find conflict amongst themselves and a loser is defined).
  • taurath 7y ago
    > others will eat your lunch Thats not what would happen to Google. What it would mean is Google has a slightly slower path to being a trillion dollar company.
  • Apocryphon 7y ago
    Sort of like how Jobs founded Apple as the antithesis is IBM, at least that’s how the origin story goes, and now they’re arguably closer to the latter than their original incarnation.
    • the_biot 7y ago
      No, Jobs didn't "found Apple as the antithesis of IBM". Woz and Jobs started Apple because Woz wouldn't/couldn't be bothered with all the sales/admin etc involved in running a company. All the rest is Jobs BS.