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It's business - you play to the limit of the rules and if you break them then you try your best not to get caught. MS didn't crush people - it crushed companie

It's business - you play to the limit of the rules and if you break them then you try your best not to get caught. MS didn't crush people - it crushed companies. There's a big difference.

riquito 12y ago
> MS didn't crush people - it crushed companies. There's a big difference. Companies run by robots, I suppose.
- gearoidoc 12y ago
  No, run by people - as your facetious comment sarcastically points out. However, it is entirely possible for these people to get another job.
  - penprog 12y ago
    So, because people can "always get another job", you think it's right that Microsoft under Bill Gates (unethically) crushed the companies that they put their time, money and effort into? Man you must be drinking some crazy corporate kool aid
    - vinceguidry 12y ago
      Yes. A company is not a person, a person is not a company. Attacking one should not be considered the same as attacking another, our entire economic system is based around the abstraction of organization so as to shield people from legal liabilities incurred by simply pursuing trade. You can't have it both ways, to both enjoy the legal benefits of a corporate structure, and then to be able to claim public sympathy when you get beaten in the market. Corporate personhood is a dangerous legal concept that Americans believe in for unfathomable reasons, and it causes all sorts of ethical problems, particularly legalization of political manipulations that are considered corruption in other parts of the world.
      - pyre 12y ago
        The idea that "it's just business" so it's ok to do anything and everything that you can get away with (up to and including breaking the law) is a harmful idea. "Crushing" other businesses by participating fairly in the market is different than using under-handed tactics to win at all costs ("history is written by the victors," "might makes right" and all that).
    - gearoidoc 12y ago
      Not drinking kool aid - just have a realistic understanding of how business works.

It's business - you play to the limit of the rules and if you break them then you try your best not to get caught. MS didn't crush people - it crushed companies. There's a big difference.

riquito 12y ago

> MS didn't crush people - it crushed companies. There's a big difference. Companies run by robots, I suppose.

gearoidoc 12y ago
No, run by people - as your facetious comment sarcastically points out. However, it is entirely possible for these people to get another job.
- penprog 12y ago
  So, because people can "always get another job", you think it's right that Microsoft under Bill Gates (unethically) crushed the companies that they put their time, money and effort into? Man you must be drinking some crazy corporate kool aid
  - vinceguidry 12y ago
    Yes. A company is not a person, a person is not a company. Attacking one should not be considered the same as attacking another, our entire economic system is based around the abstraction of organization so as to shield people from legal liabilities incurred by simply pursuing trade. You can't have it both ways, to both enjoy the legal benefits of a corporate structure, and then to be able to claim public sympathy when you get beaten in the market. Corporate personhood is a dangerous legal concept that Americans believe in for unfathomable reasons, and it causes all sorts of ethical problems, particularly legalization of political manipulations that are considered corruption in other parts of the world.
    - pyre 12y ago
      The idea that "it's just business" so it's ok to do anything and everything that you can get away with (up to and including breaking the law) is a harmful idea. "Crushing" other businesses by participating fairly in the market is different than using under-handed tactics to win at all costs ("history is written by the victors," "might makes right" and all that).
  - gearoidoc 12y ago
    Not drinking kool aid - just have a realistic understanding of how business works.