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This resonates with me as an american. I dont think there is any amount of money i could offer to safely escape a drunk driving ticket, however the ceo of my c

This resonates with me as an american. I dont think there is any amount of money i could offer to safely escape a drunk driving ticket, however the ceo of my company was the head of the board for an security company, and we were forced to use their products despite an unimaginable amount of flaws. The second the security company was sold we were allowed to drop every aspect of that company, 10 huge enterprise products, and the entire IT and Security organizations both agreed that throwing out the whole years roadmap and working to switch vendors as soon as possible was the best use of our time. Thats a small example of pure and utter -yet legal- corruption. There is no world in which that vendor was the right choice for a single product let alone 10. Except the world where the CEO could make the productivity of one company fungible with the revenue of another.

UnbugMe 6y ago
Thats not in any sense corruption.
- ehvatum 6y ago
  It is in the sense of gross conflict of interest, very obviously. The board should have canned him, but I'm guessing they are all old friends...
  - UnbugMe 6y ago
    Unethical behavior is not corruption. Corruption is about the perversion of public power. Words have meaning. No shit its a conflict of interest, who said anything otherwise.
creato 6y ago
I think this example is why the appearance of a conflict of interest should be the standard for navigating ethical concerns. If a guy owns a company, I don't doubt that he believes it's the best at what they do. The one thing most CEOs I've met have in common is they ridiculously overestimate how great their companies are. This guy probably genuinely believed his security company was the best choice. It's "not invented here" on the scale of companies instead of git repos.
tdeck 6y ago
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UnbugMe 6y ago

Thats not in any sense corruption.

ehvatum 6y ago
It is in the sense of gross conflict of interest, very obviously. The board should have canned him, but I'm guessing they are all old friends...
- UnbugMe 6y ago
  Unethical behavior is not corruption. Corruption is about the perversion of public power. Words have meaning. No shit its a conflict of interest, who said anything otherwise.

creato 6y ago

I think this example is why the appearance of a conflict of interest should be the standard for navigating ethical concerns. If a guy owns a company, I don't doubt that he believes it's the best at what they do. The one thing most CEOs I've met have in common is they ridiculously overestimate how great their companies are. This guy probably genuinely believed his security company was the best choice. It's "not invented here" on the scale of companies instead of git repos.

tdeck 6y ago

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