On 9/1/2014 3:11 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 09:43 +0000, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
Then again, it takes a certain kind of corporate greed to try to
put a patent on things we'd have never thought of as "inventions".
Aren't corporate and greed synonyms?
That's actually true in much more than just a snide comment sort of way.
A corporation is *legally obligated* to put shareholder profit above all
other concerns. Either they act like greedy f&#ks or they risk getting
the crap sued out of them. The problem is we've permitted, and promoted,
a system where companies are owned by people (shareholders) whose *sole*
interest in the company is purely financial.
The *real* role of businesses in a society is to provide worthwhile
goods and/or services. Revenue, and even profit, is ultimately just a
necessary means to that end. But stocks and incorporation flip this
around, to disastrous results.
[Steps down from soapbox...]
