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Google's like that guy who says he's sick of rich douchebags driving their Porsches around and cutting everyone else off in traffic but then he wins the lottery
by Steko 15y ago
Google's like that guy who says he's sick of rich douchebags driving their Porsches around and cutting everyone else off in traffic but then he wins the lottery and what do you know he goes out and buys a Porsche and finds that the superior handling, acceleration and compact chassis lends itself to exploiting gaps in traffic they would not have with their old Honda Accord.
- barista 15y agoIt was but obvious that Google will start suing the moment they got their hands on patents that they can use to sue people with. So much for Do no evil :)
- chc 15y agoIt's "Don't be evil" — a much less ambitious goal. Ordinary people do marginally evil things all the time without being thought of as being evil on the whole. And it's a pretty weird morality where protecting yourself makes you, as a whole, "evil."
- Steko 15y agoI don't see where Good or Evil enter into any of this. Does Android/HTC infringe on some Apple patents? Maybe. Does Apple infringe on some of these patents Google has given to HTC? Maybe. Are the likely outcomes more favorable to Android/Google/HTC with Google having given HTC these patents? Almost certainly.
- barista 15y agoSo that's how you justify Google's actions? By play of words?
- bad_user 15y agoIn my eyes, Google is just a Microsoft wannabe. That said, I do not think their current actions are in any way evil or immoral. In fact I would lose faith in Android if they weren't doing this.
- zmmmmm 15y agoSo I wonder if this definition of suing (transferring a patent to a third party who uses it defensively) is evil to you, how evil is Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, etc?
- barista 15y agoI never said Apple Oracle or Microsoft are not evil but they never did either. Google is hypocrite here claiming to do no evil while suing others through a partner.
- zmmmmm 15y agoSo in your morality hypocrisy trumps everything. Being a tiny bit evil and advocating against being evil is worse to you than actually being extremely evil and saying nothing?
- barista 15y agoBeing evil while proclaiming to not do evil is lying. What credibility would you grant to a company that does it. And this is just one occurance. Claiming to be open when withholding source code to latest android releases, stealing content from publishers like yelp to boost its own local pages. Giving preferential treatment to its own sites/products over others in search results... the list is endless.