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They should’ve kept their distance from the government as long as they could don’t volunteer to be helpful. Don’t volunteer to go meet with politicians keep as

They should’ve kept their distance from the government as long as they could don’t volunteer to be helpful. Don’t volunteer to go meet with politicians keep as low profile as you can for as long as you can. Nothing good comes with associating with them. That was always Microsoft's modus operandi, and it almost cost them their company. You can ignore politicians, but politicians won't ignore you.

DANmode 4mo ago
> it almost cost them their company. Boy, they put on a great show. I wonder if this Google antitrust thing is going to end up a similar nothing-burger due to their deep protection.
- CamperBob2 4mo ago
  Boy, they put on a great show. If you think that's how it was perceived in Redmond, you don't know anyone there.
  - DANmode 4mo ago
    It was probably a sweat, for most except the highest of leadership. Probably not comfortable for them, either. But did Bill Gates, for example, really fear existentially for MS? I’m sure there’s a lot of nervous, scrambling people at Google right now, getting back to my point.
  - calgoo 4mo ago
    See this is the issue with engineers, they think they are fighting with the government while the C-Suite wine and dine with them instead. Just like all the engineers at Google who actually bought into the whole "Don't do evil" while building the "death star" of destruction of personal information. There is no good corporation, and no matter how much the people inside the company thing they are influencing the corporate decisions, they are just number on a spreadsheet. If they all quit tomorrow, yes it would be troublesome for the company for a bit, but then they would find replacements and thats it. You as an employee only have one power at the corporation: Dont work there. Thats it, everything else is just for show. Sure you can pick the JS framework that the company will use; thats about as much corporate value as the one that picks the toilet paper in the bathrooms.
    - CamperBob2 4mo ago
      Reddit is that way ---->
      - DANmode 4mo ago
        You’re a better commenter than this thread leads on.

DANmode 4mo ago

> it almost cost them their company. Boy, they put on a great show. I wonder if this Google antitrust thing is going to end up a similar nothing-burger due to their deep protection.

CamperBob2 4mo ago
Boy, they put on a great show. If you think that's how it was perceived in Redmond, you don't know anyone there.
- DANmode 4mo ago
  It was probably a sweat, for most except the highest of leadership. Probably not comfortable for them, either. But did Bill Gates, for example, really fear existentially for MS? I’m sure there’s a lot of nervous, scrambling people at Google right now, getting back to my point.
- calgoo 4mo ago
  See this is the issue with engineers, they think they are fighting with the government while the C-Suite wine and dine with them instead. Just like all the engineers at Google who actually bought into the whole "Don't do evil" while building the "death star" of destruction of personal information. There is no good corporation, and no matter how much the people inside the company thing they are influencing the corporate decisions, they are just number on a spreadsheet. If they all quit tomorrow, yes it would be troublesome for the company for a bit, but then they would find replacements and thats it. You as an employee only have one power at the corporation: Dont work there. Thats it, everything else is just for show. Sure you can pick the JS framework that the company will use; thats about as much corporate value as the one that picks the toilet paper in the bathrooms.
  - CamperBob2 4mo ago
    Reddit is that way ---->
    - DANmode 4mo ago
      You’re a better commenter than this thread leads on.