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So ethical people in tech should be lining up to work for Oracle and patent trolls? I think it's pretty fair to pass judgment on people who choose to work in e
by Clewza313 5y ago
So ethical people in tech should be lining up to work for Oracle and patent trolls? I think it's pretty fair to pass judgment on people who choose to work in either.
- pram 5y agoIs extorting license money from other companies really less ethical than the gross psychological manipulation Google and Twitter engage in?
- Conan_Kudo 5y agoWell, the flip-side of that is that if ethical people don't work for Oracle, then Oracle never changes. Companies act on the will of the people within them, and as the people change, so do they.
- nemetroid 5y agoCompanies act on the will of shareholders.
- vsnf 5y agoSo what is about Oracle's shareholders that make it, or any company, more or less ethical, or in Oracle's case, litigious?
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoCompanies are empires, and empires don't change because an underling thinks they should. Empires change because they're overrun from outside, or - vanishingly rarely, on moral issues - because the emperor decrees it and/or is replaced. Amazon may go in a different direction with Bezos gone. It almost certainly won't, but there's always a tiny sliver of potential when the big jobs change. The political opinions of an Ln are irrelevant. Not even L10s get to set moral policy.