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Microsoft has a history of doing a lot of things. Both moral and ethically good and bad. Its the nature of being a mega corps and monopolies. My biggest surpri

by rjd 15y ago

Microsoft has a history of doing a lot of things. Both moral and ethically good and bad. Its the nature of being a mega corps and monopolies. My biggest surprise is people don't seem to think Google ever have ulterior motives, even when proven in court, or when smashing smaller industries to bits.

MikeCapone 15y ago
Please elaborate on what you mean by this.
- rjd 15y ago
  In what way? seems like a straight forward response to me. Corporations do what corporations do, I personally can't see any difference in Microsofts behavior to Googles. They are both as benevolent and malicious as each other in my book.
  - MikeCapone 15y ago
    Please give examples of what you mean here: "My biggest surprise is people don't seem to think Google ever have ulterior motives, even when proven in court, or when smashing smaller industries to bits."
    - rjd 15y ago
      Sorry. Timely enough someone has started this : http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/ive-abandoned-my-boy/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/ive-abandoned-my-boy/ and hacker news commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855559 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855559 Heres a quick search result: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/a-window-into-googles-mon_b_859582.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/a-window-into-go... I guess I don't have to justify the nature of fan boys. People that have made there opinions up and will never change there minds no matter what. Anecdotally I've been dealing with the business side of Google for a while now, and in 2007 I decided that they where the most evil corporation on the planet. Firstly it started with sub-standard industry/customer tainting products. Destroying my friends companies but releasing inferior products for free. Then some extremely negative things to say from my time dealing with them over the OOXML ISO process, and more recently working in the news media. I lost all respect for open source community after that process (but thats another story). More recently dealing with a large news organistion I can say they are controlling manipulative, two faced, liars. I guess most people don't do business with them. My personal opinion is they are devaluing everything, restricting income streams to small and new companies, dictating business models, and most importantly the creation of the attention economy is destroying the arts.

by rjd 15y ago

MikeCapone 15y ago

Please elaborate on what you mean by this.

rjd 15y ago
In what way? seems like a straight forward response to me. Corporations do what corporations do, I personally can't see any difference in Microsofts behavior to Googles. They are both as benevolent and malicious as each other in my book.
- MikeCapone 15y ago
  Please give examples of what you mean here: "My biggest surprise is people don't seem to think Google ever have ulterior motives, even when proven in court, or when smashing smaller industries to bits."
  - rjd 15y ago
    Sorry. Timely enough someone has started this : http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/ive-abandoned-my-boy/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/ive-abandoned-my-boy/ and hacker news commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855559 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855559 Heres a quick search result: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/a-window-into-googles-mon_b_859582.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/a-window-into-go... I guess I don't have to justify the nature of fan boys. People that have made there opinions up and will never change there minds no matter what. Anecdotally I've been dealing with the business side of Google for a while now, and in 2007 I decided that they where the most evil corporation on the planet. Firstly it started with sub-standard industry/customer tainting products. Destroying my friends companies but releasing inferior products for free. Then some extremely negative things to say from my time dealing with them over the OOXML ISO process, and more recently working in the news media. I lost all respect for open source community after that process (but thats another story). More recently dealing with a large news organistion I can say they are controlling manipulative, two faced, liars. I guess most people don't do business with them. My personal opinion is they are devaluing everything, restricting income streams to small and new companies, dictating business models, and most importantly the creation of the attention economy is destroying the arts.