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Dubious ethical activity
Authored by: karnat10 on Oct 06, '04 08:17:12AM

Agreed, think ethically before doing stuff on the web, don't disturb others and don't hurt the good.

But please, don't be so pitiful with corporations, even if it's Google. Corporations don't act altruistically and have always shown without any shadows of doubt that they maximize profits and minimize spendings and legal compliance. There are no 'good' corporations. Google is admittedly acting non-evil at the moment, but they're still a profit-maximizing entity, and they have a huge potential to be evil.

This attitude dictates our behaviour as customers. We have to maximize our profit as well, at least when dealing with other profit-maximizers. If not, we're going to lose. So, if a certain activity is technically possible, legal, and not disturbing others, do it! It's their fault if they let you do something on their site which is against their interests.

I mean, we don't NEED any particular corporation. Any large corporation will sooner or later become slow, expensive, too powerful, and generally think it's indispensable. Well, nobody is, because if they fail, others will come, and will do a better job.

I'm not advocating any disturbing activities here, but if someone is 'stupid' enough to offer a service on the web, they have to do it right or face the consequences. On the web, there is no room for mercy.



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