Agreed. Anyone that tells you a sufficiently large corporation is untainted from the effects of human greed is either a) horribly naive and asking to be taken a

Agreed. Anyone that tells you a sufficiently large corporation is untainted from the effects of human greed is either a) horribly naive and asking to be taken advantage of, or b) trying to use said naivete to their advantage. In Google's case, promoting their "Don't Be Evil" allows them to keep a pristine rapport with the media,which in turn helps to promote their eye-ball centric products. In Microsoft's case, selling the "developers developers developers" ideal allows them to keep their lock-in of a vast share of the enterprise software market.