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This may be a case where Dropbox feels it's more important to keep her around than kowtow to activist's principles. Individuals have feeling and morals, etc.,
by drivingmenuts 13y ago
This may be a case where Dropbox feels it's more important to keep her around than kowtow to activist's principles.
Individuals have feeling and morals, etc., and may cancel accounts. Businesses do not, though, no matter how much we try to make them people. Ultimately, Dropbox wants businesses, not people.
That's my take on it.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Individuals have feeling and morals, etc., and may cancel accounts. Businesses do not, though, no matter how much we try to make them people. All actions attributed to businesses are actions of people, who have feelings and morals. Now, for certain businesses, management may be effectively serving the shared interests of the owners/shareholders, and those shared interests may be limited to maximizing material returns, which certainly creates a common pattern of behavior...
- xname 13y agoI don't think owners/shareholders of a business care much about which cloud service the business uses. It is extremely unlike for them to force the business to change cloud service just for this kind of reasons.
- stronglikedan 13y agoI agree. I believe that, to businesses, perception is reality, and Rice's appointment will give the perception of increased data security. People may value privacy, but businesses value security.
- SmokeyHamster 13y agoWhat makes you think they're focused on businesses? I've always thought it was the opposite. You make a pastel-colored website with super-simple file-sharing software because you want to attract individual users. If anything, I'd think businesses would find Dropbox irritating, because it makes it easy for their employees to leak documents, intentionally or otherwise. It's simple enough to setup a corporate file server for file-sharing needs.