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It certainly is. What's the alternative? Let the competition sink your company?

• shmerl 12y ago
  Alternative is to compete by making something good like all normal companies instead of being crooks. Normal ethical business as usual, you know. Unethical business practices have no excuse of "what else could we do?". If you couldn't do business ethically - go out of business.
  • blumkvist 12y ago
    If they don't do it, their competitors will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_theorem_(game_theory) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_theorem_(game_theory) Eat or be eaten. I don't know what you mean by ethical. Ethical means a different thing to different people. You can subscribe to your notion if you operate a small business. If you have are in charge of a megacorp - there are other things to take into consideration.
    • shmerl 12y ago
      That's as well an invalid excuse. Say, can you excuse one criminal for being a criminal because if not, another would be in his stead? No, this logic doesn't work. Lock in is an example of unethical business practice. And it can't be excused with "if we won't engage in it, someone else will".