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Perhaps in theory. In practice, some companies manage to do less badly than others. It's not necessarily even a contradiction, if your primary business is sell
by marshray 15y ago
Perhaps in theory. In practice, some companies manage to do less badly than others.
It's not necessarily even a contradiction, if your primary business is selling to consumers it's entirely reasonable that a company would want to keep a positive image going.
For a company that makes earth-moving equipment primarily purchased by strip mining operations, no one would question the business sense of them not donating a percentage of their profits to environmental protest organizations.
For a company that sells to some gamer demographic, perhaps it would be the better part of wisdom to, say, decline to antagonize the likes of Geohot and the noncommercial hackers, modders, and Linux users of their platform. (Never mind the legally questionable tactic of retroactively disabling previously advertised and purchased functionality).