"Rainer Deyke" <rain...@eldwood.com> wrote in message news:hjg5gp$i7...@digitalmars.com... > Bane wrote: >> I naively and firmly believe, from my standpoint as a individual, >> that any large corporation is evil. Google is no exception. > > I think there is some truth to that, in the same way as all governments, > political parties, and other large organizations are evil. Still, this > doesn't mean that are governments or all large corporations are morally > equivalent. I'll take the evil of a secular liberal democracy over the > evil of a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship any day. > > Google provides free products and services, uses unobtrusive > advertising, promotes open standards, and contributes to open source > projects. Compared to other corporations of a similar size, they're > practically saints. Even if I don't care for their products, or for the > direction in which they are trying to push the computer industry. > >
That is a good point. (FWIW, The only reason I feel compelled to "me too" this post is as a disclaimer for all my other Google-bashing posts here.)
