[clug] Linux Google OS coming..

Ric de France rdefrance at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 19:06:44 MDT 2009


Paul,

2009/7/8 Paul Wayper <paulway at mabula.net>

> Humans are evil.  I expect you to try and murder me as soon as look at me,
> no matter how nice you've said you'll be in the past.
>
> Really, this kind of 'corporations are inherently evil' thing is
> misunderstanding the whole thing.  Corporations are only as good or as bad
> as their leaders.  In the 1920s corporations looked after their employees -
> in Japan they still do.  I see corporations as a manifestation of the saying
> "in order for evil to triumph it is only necessary for good people to do
> nothing" - i.e. only by the thoughtful effort of everyone at Google,
> especially upper management, does it uphold its 'do no evil' motto.
>

Seen "The Corporation" doco? http://www.thecorporation.com/

According to the video's research, to be incorporated was a good thing. It
allowed for a pooling of people's resources to achieve a good, whether it be
for a community or a subset of the community. It only all turned bad once
corporate lawyers got involved, and made "making a profit" the number 1
agenda item.

I agree with you on the point you've raised. Just because Google is a
corporation, doesn't mean it has to be a bad one. Let's just hope that they
know that too!

;-)

...Ric
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