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The responses in TechCrunch disturbs me a little. While Google's occasionally stumbled over its informal "Don't Be Evil" policy a few times (China, I feel, will
by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
The responses in TechCrunch disturbs me a little. While Google's occasionally stumbled over its informal "Don't Be Evil" policy a few times (China, I feel, will forever haunt them, along with everybody else that's ever been tempted with its forbidden fruit of 1.3 billion seeds), their business model is so deviant from the Microsoft propriety method that trying to accuse them of being the next Evil Empire misses the mark by a wide margin.
It's not as if Google can't be more open, more altruistic, better about intellectual property management and better about privacy concerns. But there's a pretty big difference between demanding for more and dismissing them for not being "perfect" in the eyes of their critics.
- mediaman 17y agoThe threat of vilifying anyone who commits any sin -- no matter how ethically good their average performance -- is that it decreases the incentive to strive for good behavior. There's a huge perception gap between being perfect and being very good, but it often seems the perception gap between being very good and no good at all is surprisingly small. Given that it's nearly impossible for a very large company to be perfect all the time, it becomes easier to give up trying so hard to be very good.